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JOHN POMFRET (1667-1702)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 48 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN POMFRET (1667-1702)  ,
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English poet, son of Thomas Pomfret, vicar of
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Luton, was born in 1667 . He was educated at
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Bedford grammar school and at Queens' College, Cambridge . He became rector of Maulden, Bedfordshire, in 1695, and of Millbrook in the same.. county in 1702 . Dr Johnson says that the bishop of
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London refused to sanction preferment for him because in his Choice he declared that he would have no wife, although he expressed a wish for the occasional
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company of a modest and sprightly young lady . The poet was married in real
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life all the same, and—while waiting to clear up the misunderstanding with the bishop—he died in November 1702 . The Choice or Wish: A Poem written by a Person of Quality (1700) expresses the epicurean desires of a cultivated man of Pomfret's time . It is smoothly written in the heroic
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couplet, and was widely popular . His
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Miscellany Poems were published in 1702 .

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