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Joseph Trapp

(Trapp, Joseph, 1679-1747)

Portrait of Joseph Trapp (1679-1747), English High Church Anglican clergyman, academic, poet (of occasional verse), dramatist, and pamphleteer, Oxford University's first Professor of Poetry (1708-1718).
In the collection of Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford; Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 61 cm
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Joseph Trapp (1679–1747) was an English clergyman, academic, poet and pamphleteer. His production as a younger man of occasional verse (some anonymous, or in Latin) and dramas led to his appointment as the first Oxford Professor of Poetry in 1708. Later his High Church opinions established him in preferment and position. As a poet, he was not well thought of by contemporaries, with Jonathan Swift refusing a dinner in an unavailing attempt to avoid revising one of Trapp’s poems, and Abel Evans making an epigram on his blank verse translation of the Aeneid with a reminder of the commandment against murder. (From Wikipedia)

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