Elijah Fenton (1683 - 1730) was a poet, biographer and translator. Events June 6 - The Ashmolean Museum opens as the worlds first university museum. ... Events Pope Clement XII elected September 17 - Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ahmed III (1703-1730) to Mahmud I (1730-1754) Anna Ivanova (Anna I of Russia) became czarina Births May 13 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ...

Born in Shelton (now Stoke-on-Trent), and educated at Cambridge, for a time he acted as secretary to the Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery in Flanders, and was then Master of Sevenoaks Grammar School. Shelton is the name of several places in the world: In the United Kingdom: Shelton, Bedfordshire Shelton, Norfolk Shelton, Nottinghamshire Shelton, Shropshire Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire In the United States of America: Shelton, Connecticut Shelton, Washington These should not be confused with Sheldon, Missouri. ... This page is about Stoke-on-Trent in England. ... Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery (1676 - August 28, 1731), the second son of Roger, 2nd earl, was born at Chelsea. ...

In 1707 he published a book of poems. He is best known, however, as the assistant of Alexander Pope in his translation of the Odyssey, of which he 'Englished' the first, fourth, nineteenth, and twentieth books, catching the manner of his master so completely that it is hardly possible to distinguish between their work; while thus engaged he published (1723) a successful tragedy, Marianne. His later contributions to literature were a Life of Milton, and as an editor of Waller's Poems (1729). Events January 1 - John V is crowned King of Portugal March 26 - The Act of Union becomes law, making the separate Kingdoms of England and Scotland into one country, the Kingdom of Great Britain. ... Alexander Pope Alexander Pope (May 22, 1688 – May 30, 1744) is considered one of the greatest English poets of the eighteenth century. ... The Odyssey (ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ) is the second of the two great Greek epic poems ascribed to Homer, the first being the Iliad. ... Events February 16 - Louis XV of France attains his majority Births February 24 - John Burgoyne, British general (d. ... Marianne busts with features of Brigitte Bardot - ? - ? - Catherine Deneuve - Mireille Mathieu For the Tori Amos song see Marianne (song). ... Events July 30 - Baltimore, Maryland is founded. ...

This article incorporates text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature is a collection of biographies of writers by John W. Cousin, published around 1910. ...