Thomas Tickell

Thomas Tickell ( born December 17, 1685 in Kirk Bride, † April 21, 1740 in Bath ) was an English poet and scholar

Life

Thomas Tickell, was born on December 17, 1685, the son of a pastor in Kirk Bride, Cumberland. According to the Free Grammar School of St. Bees in 1701, he attended Queen's College in Oxford and graduated in 1709 with the MA from.

Tickell was promoted and sponsored, who had become aware of him through the dedication poem To the Author of Rosamund, an Opera ( 1709) and later allowed him entry into the civil service of the writer Joseph Addison. In Addison, he was Under Secretary of State for the Southern Department, from 1724 to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Carteret Secretary in Dublin, a post he retained until his death on 21 April 1740 in Bath.

Work

His more than thirty poems and about 26 essays published in the Guardian, Spectator and other weeklies, including the political poem A Poem, to His Excellency the Lord Privy Seal, on the Prospect of Peace in 1712, a plea for the peace policy of Tory government.

Addison Tickell encouraged to publish his translation of the first book of the Iliad. This publication coincided with Alexander Pope Iliasübersetzung together ( June 1715 ), so that it came between Addison and Pope to a controversy: Tickell was then his intention to. Literary fame gave Tickell the ballad Colin and Lucy ( 1725), which was praised by Thomas Gray and Oliver Goldsmith as one of the best in their genre.