John Pomfret
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Standard Name: Pomfret, John
Connections
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Anthologization | Anne Finch | |
Textual Features | Sarah Dixon | SD
expresses personal emotion eloquently and social observation sardonically. The Wish follows sedately in the country-retirement tradition of John Pomfret
, but To Miranda likens herself to Job, and adds a vivid image of shipwreck:... |
Textual Production | Mary Chandler | It seems that in an earlier poem, The Wish (which belongs to a distinct sub-genre dating back to John Pomfret
's The Choice, 1700), MC
had sounded so humble and placid that she attracted... |
Timeline
1 December 1699
John Pomfret
published The Choice, a poem in praise of the good life; among many other poems sharing this title, or that of The Wish, Pomfret's became a long-lived favourite.