Thomas Tickell
Thomas Tickell (born December 17, 1685 in Bridekirk , † April 21, 1740 in Bath ) was an English poet and scholar.
Life
Thomas Tickell was born on December 17, 1685, the son of a minister in Bridekirk, Cumberland. After the Free Grammar School at St. Bees, he attended Queen's College in Oxford in 1701 and completed his studies in 1709 with an MA.
Tickell was promoted and sponsored by the writer Joseph Addison , who had become aware of him through the dedication poem To the Author of Rosamund, to Opera (1709) and who later enabled him to enter the civil service. Under Addison he was Undersecretary of State for the Southern Department , from 1724 under the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Lord Carteret Secretary in Dublin, a post he kept in Bath until his death on April 21, 1740.
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His more than thirty poems and about 26 essays have appeared in the Guardian , Spectator and other weeklies, including the political poem A Poem, to His Excellency the Lord Privy-Seal, on the Prospect of Peace in 1712, a plea for peace policy Tory government.
Addison encouraged Tickell to publish his translation of the first book of the Iliad . This publication coincided with Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad (June 1715), so that a controversy arose between Addison and Pope: Tickell then gave up his project. Tickell gained literary fame with the ballad Colin and Lucy (1725), which Thomas Gray and Oliver Goldsmith praised as one of the best of its genre.
literature
- Helgard Stöver-Leidig, The Poems of Thomas Tickell. A historical-critical edition with commentary (Frankfurt a. M. and Bern 1981).
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| SURNAME | Tickell, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English poet and scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1685 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bridekirk |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1740 |
| Place of death | Bath |