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HENRY ALDRICH (1647-1710)

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HENRY See also:ALDRICH (1647-1710)  , See also:English theologian and philosopher, was See also:born in 1647 at See also:Westminster, and was educated at the collegiate school there, under Dr See also:Busby . In 1662 he entered See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, and in 1689 was made See also:dean in See also:succession to the See also:Roman 'See also:Catholic, See also:John See also:Massey, who had fled to the See also:continent . In 1692 he was See also:vice-See also:chancellor of the University . In 1702 he was appointed See also:rector of See also:Wem in See also:Shropshire, but continued to reside at Oxford, where he died on the 14th of See also:December 1710 . He was buried in the See also:cathedral without any memorial at his own See also:desire . See also:Aldrich was a See also:man of unusually varied gifts . A classical See also:scholar of See also:fair merits, he is best known as the author of a little See also:book on See also:logic (Compendium Artis Logicae), a See also:work of little value in itself, but used at Oxford (in 'See also:Mansel's revised' edition) till' See also:long past the See also:middle of the 19th See also:century . Aldrich also composed a number of anthems and church services of high merit, and adapted much of the See also:music of See also:Palestrina and See also:Carissimi to English words with See also:great skill and See also:judgment . To him we owe the well-known catch, " Hark, the bonny Christ Church bells." See also:Evidence of his skill as an architect may be seen in the church and campanile of All See also:Saints, Oxford, and in three sides of the so-called Peckwater Quadrangle of Christ Church, which were erected after his designs . He See also:bore a great reputation for conviviality', and wrote a humorous Latin version during the See also:Civil See also:War he was himself editor of the New See also:York Illustrated See also:News . In 1865 he moved to See also:Boston and was editor for ten years for See also:Ticknor and See also:Fields—then at the height of their See also:prestige—of the eclectic weekly Every Saturday, discontinued in 1875 . From 1881 to 1890 he was editor of the See also:Atlantic Monthly .

Meanwhile Aldrich had written much, both in See also:

prose and See also:verse . His See also:genius was many-sided, and it is surprising that so busy an editor and so prolific a writer should have attained the perfection of See also:form for which he was remarkable . His successive volumes of verse, chiefly The Ballad of Babie See also:Bell (1856), Pampinea, and Other Poems (1861), See also:Cloth of See also:Gold (1874), See also:Flower and See also:Thorn (1876), See also:Friar See also:Jerome's Beautiful Book (1881), Mercedes and Later Lyrics (1883) ,W yndham Towers (1889) , and the collected See also:editions of 1865, 1882, 1897 and 19oo, showed him to be a poet of lyrical skill, dainty See also:touch and felicitous conceit, the See also:influence of See also:Herrick being constantly apparent . He repeatedly essayed the long narrative or dramatic poem, but seldom with success, See also:save in such earlier work as Garnaut See also:Hall . But no See also:American poet has shown more skill in describing some single picture, See also:mood, conceit or See also:episode . His best things are such lyrics as " See also:Hesperides," " When the See also:Sultan goes to Ispahan," " Before the See also:Rain," "Name-less See also:Pain," " The Tragedy," " Seadrift," " See also:Tiger Lilies," " The One See also:White See also:Rose," " Palabras Carinosas," " Destiny," or the eight-See also:line poem " Identity," which did more to spread Aldrich's reputation than any of his See also:writing after Babie Bell . Beginning with the collection of stories entitled Marjorie Daw and Other See also:People (1873), Aldrich applied to his later prose work that See also:minute care in See also:composition which had previously characterized his verse—taking a near, new or salient situation, and setting it before the reader in a See also:pretty See also:combination of kindly See also:realism and reticent See also:humour . In the novels, Prudence See also:Palfrey (1874), The See also:Queen of Sheba (1877), and The Stillwater Tragedy (188o), there is more rapid See also:action; but the See also:Portsmouth pictures in the first' are elaborated with the affectionate touch shown in the shorter humourous See also:tale, A Rivermouth See also:Romance (1877) . In An Old See also:Town by the See also:Sea (1893) the author's birthplace was once more commemorated, while travel and description are the theme of From Ponkapog to Pesth (1883) . Aldrich died at Boston on the 19th of See also:March 1907 . His See also:Life was written by Ferris Greenslet (1908) .

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