Thomas Parnell is more remembered for the fact that Johnson wrote his biography than for his poetry, which was published by Pope after his death.
Parnell was born in Dublin in 1679 to a man of commonwealth, also by the name of Thomas Parnell. At the age of fourteen, he entered Trinity College of Dublin, and at the age of twenty became deacon in the Episcopal church. Being promoted to archdeacon, in 1706 he married the daughter of Thomas Minchin of Tipperary. Five years later, she died. Around this time, he became more deeply attached to the Scribblerus circle. He wrote the introduction to Pope's Iliad. In 1718, just two years after being presented the vicarage of Finglass, he died on the way to Ireland (presumably of heavy drink).
The only poems published during his lifetime were in periodicals. After his death, his friends published some of his best poems and wrote his elgy. His biography is in the famous Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets.
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On Happiness In This Life | 31 July 2013 |
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On Dr. Brown's Death | 31 July 2013 |
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On Divine Love By Meditating On The Wounds Of Christ | 31 July 2013 |
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On Content | 31 July 2013 |
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On Bishop Burnet's Being Set On Fire In His Closet | 31 July 2013 |
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On A Lady With A Foul Breath | 31 July 2013 |
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On A Certain Poets Judgement Between Mr Pope Mr Philips Don In An Italian Air | 31 July 2013 |
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On ------ Embroydring | 31 July 2013 |
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Oft Have I Read That Innocence Retreats | 31 July 2013 |
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O Tell If Any Fate You See | 31 July 2013 |
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