See also:ROBERT See also:MONTGOMERY (1807-1855)
, See also:English poet, natural son of See also:Robert Gomery, was See also:born at See also:Bath in 1807
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He was educated at a private school in Bath, and founded an unsuccessful weekly See also:paper in that See also:city
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In 1828 he published The Omni-presence of the Deity, which See also:hit popular religious sentiment so exactly that it ran through eight See also:editions in as many months
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In 1830 followed The Puffiad (a See also:satire), and Satan
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An exhaustive See also:review in See also:Blackwood by See also:John See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson, followed in the See also:thirty-first number by a See also:burlesque of Satan, and two articles in the first See also:volume of See also:Fraser, ridiculed See also:Montgomery's pretensions and the excesses of his admirers
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But his name was immortalized by See also:Macaulay's famous onslaught in the See also:Edinburgh Review for See also:April 1830
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As a poet, he deserved every word of Macaulay's severe censure, though the brutality of the attack cannot be defended
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This exposure did not, however, diminish the See also:sale of his poems; The Omnipresence of the Deity reached its 28th edition in 1858
.
In 1830 Montgomery entered See also:Lincoln See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1833 and M.A. in 1838
.
Taking See also:holy orders in 1835 he obtained a curacy at See also:Whittington, See also:Shropshire, which he exchanged in '1836 for the See also:charge of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Jude, See also:Glasgow
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In 1843 he removed to the See also:parish of St Pancras, See also:London, when he was See also:minister of See also:Percy See also:Chapel
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He died at See also:Brighton in 1855
.
He also wrote The See also:Messiah (1832), Woman, the See also:Angel of See also:Life (1833), Oxford (1831), and many devotional and theological See also:works
.
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