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William Somervile or
Somerville (
September 2,
1675 -
July 19,
1742) was an
English poet.
Somervile was the eldest son of a country gentleman, and was born at Edstone,
Worcestershire. He was educated at
Winchester College and at
New College, Oxford. After his father's death in
1705 he lived on his estate, devoting himself especially to field sports, which supplied the subjects of his best-known poems. His publications were
The Two Springs (1725), a fable;
Occasional Poems ... (1727);
The Chace ("The Chase") (1735);
Hobbinol, or the Rural Games (1740), a burlesque poem describing the
Cotswold Games; and
Field Sports (1742), a poem on hawking.
His
Chase passed through many editions. It was illustrated by
Thomas Bewick (1796), by Thomas Stothard (1800), and by
Hugh Thomson (1896), with a preface by RF Sharp.
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