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Edward Young

About the Author: Abirlal Mukherjee

Assistant Professor (Amity University), Digital Humanist
Ph.D in English (GITAM, India), M.A. and B.A. in English (B.C.C., B.K.U, India), P.G.D.E. -I by Research (B.C.U, UK), TESOL Prof. Certification (Arizona State University, USA)

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Edward Young (1683-1765)

  1. Was born in the Winchister
  2.   Works:
    1. First publication: Epistle to … Lord Lansdoune (1713)
    2. Poem on the Last day (1713) (dedicated to Queen Anne)
    3. The Force of Religion: or Vanquished Love (1714) (a poem on the execution of Lady Jane Grey and her husband, dedicated to the Countess of Salisbury.)
    4. On the late Queen’s death and His Majesty’s Accession to the Throne (1714)
      1. An Epistle to Joseph Addison
    5. Busirs
    6. Revenge
      1. Dedicated to Duke of Wharton, Philip
    7. The Universal Passion:
      1. From 1725 to 1728. A series of 7 satires dedicated to the Duke of Dorset, George, Bubb Dodington, Sir Spenser Compton, Lady Elizabeth Germain and Sir Robert Walpole.
    8. The Instalment
    9. The Foreign Address
    10. Night Thoughts
      1. A long poem written in Blank verse, and published between 1742 to 1745
    11. Conjectures on Original Composition 1759
      1. a critical prose.

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