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

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