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| Fenton, Elijah |
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| 16831730, English poet. A graduate of Cambridge, he was a schoolmaster for a time and later was a tutor in several noble families. He is chiefly remembered for his share in Popes translation of the Odyssey (1725). Besides writing a volume of Poems (1708) and a tragedy, Marianne (1723), he edited the works of Milton (1725) and Waller (1729). |
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