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Richard Leigh (1649/50–1728) was an English poet. ==Life== He was the younger son of Edward Leigh (1603–1671) and Elizabeth Talbot (died 1707) of Rushall, Staffordshire. He entered Queen’s College, Oxford in 1666 at age sixteen. Sources rumor that, after school, Leigh left Oxford for London and became an actor in the Duke of York’s or King's Company. There were two other actors named “Leigh” during that period in the company, Anthony Leigh and John Leigh, but no records of a Richard Leigh in either company exist today. While he was a young man, Leigh wrote a prose tract attacking poet John Dryden (1631–1700), entitled “The Censure of the Rota on Mr. Dryden’s Conquest of Granada”, an attack which annoyed Dryden who subsequently called Leigh ‘the Fastidious Brisk of Oxford’. Some of Leigh’s works include “Poems on Several Occasions and to Several Persons”, “Greatness in Little” (1675), “Sleeping on her Couch”, and “The Eccho”. His will was dated March 22, 1726, proved on September 12, 1728. He was buried in the chancel of Saint Michael’s Church, Rushall. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Leigh (poet)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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