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MONTGOMERY, ROBERT (1807-1855)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 784 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONTGOMERY, See also:ROBERT (1807-1855) , See also:English poet, natural son of Robert Gomery, was See also:born at See also:Bath in 1807. He was educated at a private school in Bath, and founded an unsuccessful weekly See also:paper in that See also:city. In 1828 he published The Omni-presence of the Deity, which See also:hit popular religious sentiment so exactly that it ran through eight See also:editions in as many months. In 1830 followed The Puffiad (a See also:satire), and Satan. An exhaustive See also:review in See also:Blackwood by See also:John See also:Wilson, followed in the See also:thirty-first number by a See also:burlesque of Satan, and two articles in the first See also:volume of See also:Fraser, ridiculed Montgomery's pretensions and the excesses of his admirers. But his name was immortalized by See also:Macaulay's famous onslaught in the See also:Edinburgh Review for See also:April 1830. As a poet, he deserved every word of Macaulay's severe censure, though the brutality of the attack cannot be defended. This exposure did not, however, diminish the See also:sale of his poems; The Omnipresence of the Deity reached its 28th edition in 1858. In 1830 Montgomery entered See also:Lincoln See also:College, See also:Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1833 and M.A. in 1838. Taking See also:holy orders in 1835 he obtained a curacy at See also:Whittington, See also:Shropshire, which he exchanged in '1836 for the See also:charge of the See also:church of St See also:Jude, See also:Glasgow. In 1843 he removed to the See also:parish of St Pancras, See also:London, when he was See also:minister of See also:Percy See also:Chapel. He died at See also:Brighton in 1855.

He also wrote The See also:

Messiah (1832), Woman, the See also:Angel of See also:Life (1833), Oxford (1831), and many devotional and theological See also:works.

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