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POMFRET, JOHN (1667-1702)

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 48 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: POL-PRE
POMFRET, JOHN (1667-1702) , English poet, son of
Thomas
  Pomfret,
vicar
  of Luton, was born in 1667. He was educated at
Bedford
  grammar school and at Queens' College,
Cambridge
 . He became
rector
  of Maulden, Bedfordshire, in 1695, and of Millbrook in the same.. county in 1702. Dr Johnson says that the
bishop
  of London refused to sanction preferment for him because in his Choice he declared that he would have no wife, although he expressed a wish for the occasional company of a modest and sprightly
young
  lady. The poet was married in real life all the same, andwhile waiting to clear up the misunderstanding with the bishophe died in November 1702. The Choice or Wish: A Poem written by a Person of Quality (1700) expresses the epicurean desires of a cultivated man of Pomfret's time. It is smoothly written in the heroic couplet, and was widely popular. His Miscellany Poems were published in 1702.


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