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JAGO, RICHARD (1715-1781)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 125 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAGO, See also:RICHARD (1715-1781) , See also:English poet, third son of Richard Jago, See also:rector of Beaudesert, See also:Warwickshire, was See also:born in 1715. He went up to University See also:College, See also:Oxford, in 1732, and took his degree in 1736. He was ordained to the curacy of Snitterfield, Warwickshire, in 1737, and became rector in 1754; and, although he subsequently received other preferments, Snitterfield remained his favourite See also:residence. He died there on the 8th of May 1781. He was twice married. Jago's best-known poem, The Blackbirds, was first printed in See also:Hawkesworth's Adventurer (No. 37, See also:March 13, 1753), and was generally attributed to See also:Gilbert See also:West, but Jago published it in his own name, with other poems, in R. See also:Dodsley-'s Collection of Poems (vol. iv., 1755). In 1767 appeared a topographical poem, Edge See also:Hill, or the Rural Prospect delineated and moralized; two See also:separate sermons were published in 1755; and in 1768 Labour and See also:Genius, a See also:Fable. Shortly before his See also:death Jago revised his poems, and they were published in 1784 by his friend, See also:John See also:Scott Hylton, as Poems Moral and Descriptive. See a See also:notice prefixed to the edition of 1784; A. See also:Chalmers, English Poets (vol. xvii., 1810) ; F.

L. Colvile, Warwickshire Worthies (1870) ; some See also:

biographical notes are to be found in the letters of See also:Shenstone to Jago printed in vol. iii. of Shenstone's See also:Works (1769)..

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