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FENTON, ELIJAH (1683-1730)

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FENTON, See also:ELIJAH (1683-1730) , See also:English poet, was See also:born at See also:Shelton near See also:Newcastle-under-Lyme, of an old See also:Staffordshire See also:family, on the 25th of May 1683. He graduated from Jesus See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 1704, but was prevented by religious scruples from taking orders. He accompanied the See also:earl of See also:Orrery to See also:Flanders as private secretary, and on returning to See also:England became assistant in a school at Headley, See also:Surrey, being soon afterwards appointed See also:master of the See also:free See also:grammar school at See also:Sevenoaks in See also:Kent. In 1710 he resigned his See also:appointment in the expectation of a See also:place from See also:Lord See also:Bolingbroke, but was disappointed. He then became See also:tutor to Lord Broghill, son of his See also:patron Orrery. Fenton is remembered as the coadjutor of See also:Alexander See also:Pope in his See also:translation of the Odyssey. He was responsible for the first, See also:fourth, nineteenth and twentieth hooks, for which he received 300. He died at See also:East See also:Hampstead, See also:Berkshire, on the 16th of See also:July 1730. He was buried in the See also:parish See also:church, and his See also:epitaph was written by Pope. Fenton also published See also:Oxford and Cambridge See also:Miscellany Poems (1707) ; See also:Miscellaneous Poems (1717) ; Mariamne, a tragedy (1723) ; an edition (1725) of See also:Milton's poems, and one of See also:Waller (1729) with elaborate notes. See W. W.

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Lloyd, Elijah Fenton, his See also:Poetry and See also:Friends (1894).

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