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SOMERVILE, WILLIAM (1675-1742)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 391 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SOMERVILE, See also:WILLIAM (1675-1742) , See also:English poet, eldest son of a See also:country See also:gentleman, was See also:born at Edstone, See also:Worcestershire, on the 2nd of See also:September 1675. He was educated at See also:Winchester See also:College and at New College, See also:Oxford. After his See also:father's See also:death in 1705 he lived on his See also:estate, devoting himself especially to See also:field See also:sports, which supplied the subjects of his best-known poems. His publications were The Two Springs (1725), a See also:fable; Occasional Poems. . . (1727); The See also:Chase (1735) Hobbinol, or the Rural See also:Games (1740), a See also:burlesque poem; and Field Sports (1742), a poem on hawking. Somervile died on the 19th of See also:July 1742. His Chase passed through many See also:editions. It was illustrated by See also:Bewick (1796), by See also:Stothard (1800), and by See also:Hugh See also:Thomson (1896), with a See also:preface by R. F. See also:Sharp.

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