Edmund Smith

Edmund Smith (1672-1710), (born Edmund Neale) was a minor English poet in the early eighteenth century. He is little read today but Samuel Johnson included him in his Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets in 1781.

Biography

The son of a successful merchant, Edmund Smith attended Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford where he stayed until 1705.cite book
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Notable works

*"Phaedra and Hippolitus" (1707) (translation of "Phèdre" by Racine)
*"A poem on the death of Mr. John Philips" (1710)
*"Works" (1714) (posthumous publication)
*"Thales; a monody, sacred to the memory of Dr. Pococke. In imitation of Spenser" (1750) (posthumous publication)

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