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Description: | Edward Young, born in 1683 at Upham, was the son of Edward Young, Rector of Upham, Fellow of Winchester College and, afterwards, Dean of Salisbury and chaplain to William and Mary. He was educated at New College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and in 1708 was nominated by Archbishop Tenison to a law fellowship at All Souls'. He took holy orders in April 1728 and was appointed chaplain in ordinary to George II. In 1780 he was presented by his college to the rectory of Welwyn in Hertfordshire. He died on 5 April in the parsonage house, and is buried in Welwyn church. Before his death, he ordered all his manuscripts to be burnt.
Young was a popular and prolific poet, a contemporary of Pope and Addison. His best-known work is 'The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality', published anonymously between 1742 and 1745. It includes the line 'Procrastination is the thief of time'.
The illustration is, according to Highmore, the only portrait for which Young sat as he hated the ceremony. Young gave the portrait, for which he had paid, to Samuel Richardson, whose widow left it to All Souls' College. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | Edward Young poet All Souls' College Welwyn Samuel Richardson portrait The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality | Temporal: | start=1730-01-01; end=1750-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Joseph Highmore; J Thurston; W C Edwards; James Nichol | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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