Stairs to Hart Hall (Hertford College), Oxford. Photo by Godot 13, 2014. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Robert Bedingfield (?1720-1768) was an English poet.
Life[]
Youth and education[]
Almost nothing is known of Bedingfield.
He attended Westminster School. and then entered Hart Hall, Oxford (now Hertford College, Oxford), earning a B.A. in 1741, and an M.A. in 1743.[1]
Career[]
Bedingfield seems after taking his degrees to have lived for about a decade at Oxford, where he knew Joseph Spence and Joseph and Thomas Warton. Bedingfield actively supported Thomas Warton's election as Oxford Professor of Poetry.[1]
Recognition[]
Bedingfield's poem "The Education of Achilles" was published in Dodsley's Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands (1763).[2]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Robert Bedingfield (1720 ca.-1768), English Poetry, 1579-1830, Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Polytech Institute & State University. Web, Mar. 30, 2020.
- ↑ Robert Bedingfield, Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive. Web, Mar. 30, 2020.
External links[]
- Poems
- About
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