Edward Young

Edward Young ( born July 3, 1683 Upham in Hampshire, † April 5, 1765 Welwyn in Hertfordshire) was an English poet.

Life

Born the son of a clergyman, devoted to Young the study of law at Oxford. His first poems The last day in 1713 and The force of religion remained without effect. 1719 he went to London where he joined the clergy and in 1728 acquired by a poem on King George II a job as a chaplain. Two years later he put this place down, however, and became a minister in Wetwyn in Hertfordshire. The money that him his first, published in 1726, had introduced satires, Young lost in the so-called South Sea Bubble. The death of his wife caused him to seal his most famous The complaint, or night thoughts 1742-1745 (German suits or night thoughts). This gloomy and melancholy reflections on death and immortality, which also served for Novalis's Hymns to the Night as a template, made ​​the font soon advance to become the favorite book of Europe formed. About the death of his wife he never came across. After Young had a falling out with his son, he refused to see him before his death once, but bequeathed his entire fortune.

Work

Young criticized in its shaped by Christian morality works mostly the vices of the people, such as desire for fame, lust or disbelief.

  • The Revenge, 1721 (Eng. The Revenge, 1756 prose translation )
  • The Universial Passion, 1726
  • The Instalment, 1726
  • Cynthio, 1727
  • A Vindication of Providence, 1728
  • Empire Pelagi, a Naval Lyrick, 1730
  • A Sea - Piece ... 1733
  • The Foreign Address, or The Best Argument for Peace, 1734
  • The Complaint or Night Thoughts, 1742-1745
  • The Centaur not Fabulous; in Five Letters to a Friend, 1755
  • Resignation, 1762
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