RPO -- Selected Poetry of Thomas Parnell (ca. 1679-1718)

Selected Poetry of Thomas Parnell (ca. 1679-1718)

from Representative Poetry On-line
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto
from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire
A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition
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© 2011, Ian Lancashire for the Department of English, University of Toronto

Index to poems

Such joy though far transcending sense,
Have pious souls at parting hence.
On earth, and in the body plac'd,
A few, and evil years they waste
(A Night-piece on Death, 83-86)

Notes on Life and Works

Coleborne, Bryan. "Parnell, Thomas (1679–1718)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oxford: OUP, 2004.

Biographical information

Given name: Thomas
Family name: Parnell
Birth date: ca. September 1679
Death date: 24 October 1718
Nationality: Irish
Family relations
father: Thomas Parnell
mother: Anna Parnell
wife: Anne Parnell
Language: English
Education
School at Dublin kept by Dr. Jones
Trinity College, Dublin (B.A.): 1693 to 1697
Trinity College, Dublin (M.A.): 1697 to 9 July 1700
Politics: Tory
Honours
B.D., Dublin University: 1712
D.D., Dublin University: 1712
Literary movement: Graveyard Poets
Literary period: Augustan
Occupations
Deacon
Priest: 1703
Archdeacon: 9 February 1706
Residence: Dublin: 1679
Buried at: Holy Trinity churchyard