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On the Death of Richard West (written in 1742) [16] Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes (written in 1747) [17] Ode to a Distant Prospect of Eton College (written in 1747 and published anonymously) [18] Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (written between 1745 and 1750) [19]
"Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" is an 18th-century ode by Thomas Gray. It is composed of ten 10-line stanzas, rhyming ABABCCDEED, with the B lines and final D line in iambic trimeter and the others in iambic tetrameter. In this poem, Gray coined the phrase "Ignorance is bliss". It occurs in the final stanza of the poem:
From 1885 to 1903 Benson taught at Eton, but returned to Cambridge in 1904 as a Fellow of Magdalene College to lecture in English Literature. He became president of the college (the Master's deputy) in 1912, and he was Master of Magdalene (head of the college) from December 1915 until his death in 1925.
He was born at Great Torrington in Devon, and educated at Eton, where he was afterwards a renowned master, nicknamed "Tute" (short for "tutor") by his pupils.After Eton, where he won the Newcastle Scholarship, [1] he studied at King's College, Cambridge, where he won the Chancellor's Medal for an English poem on Plato in 1843, and the Craven Scholarship in 1844. [2]
Swinburne attended Eton College (1849–53), where he started writing poetry. At Eton, he won first prizes in French and Italian. [4] He attended Balliol College, Oxford (1856–60), with a brief hiatus when he was rusticated [6] from the university in 1859 for having publicly supported the attempted assassination of Napoleon III by Felice ...
John Heneage Jesse (1809 – 7 July 1874), English historian, son of Edward Jesse, was educated at Eton and became a clerk in the secretary's department of the Admiralty. [ 1 ] His poem on Mary, Queen of Scots was published about 1831, and was followed by a collection of poems entitled Tales of the Dead .
His best work is to be found in his Shorter Poems (1890), and a complete edition (to date) of his Poetical Works (6 vols.) was published in 1898–1905. Despite being made poet laureate in 1913, Bridges was never a very well-known poet and only achieved his great popularity shortly before his death with The Testament of Beauty .
Digby Mackworth Dolben. Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Dolben (8 February 1848 – 28 June 1867) was an English poet who died young from drowning. He owes his poetic reputation to his cousin, Robert Bridges, poet laureate from 1913 to 1930, who edited a partial edition of his verse, Poems, in 1911.