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Young, Edward (1683 - 1765)

Index to poems

  1. The Complaint: or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
  2. The Last Day
  3. Love of Fame, The Universal Passion
Biography: 
  • May, James E. "Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
Given Name: 
Edward
Family Name: 
Young
Birth Date: 
July 3, 1683
Death Date: 
April 5, 1765
Nationality: 
English

Education

Occupations

Literary Period: 
Augustan
Literary Movement: 
Graveyard Poets
Buried At: 
Chancel of St Mary's Church, Welwyn