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Edward Young was born in Winchester, England. He attended Winchester College and Oxford University. He began publishing poems in 1713, and he published poems and a play throughout the 1720s. In 1728 he became a royal chaplain. In 1731 he married Lady Elizabeth Lee, who died in 1740. He is most well-known for his poem, "The Complaint: or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality," which was published in nine parts.  William Henry Seward mentions the poem to Frances in his letter 18330724WHS_FMS.

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Edward Young was born in Winchester, England. He attended Winchester College and Oxford University. He began publishing poems in 1713, and he published poems and a play throughout the 1720s. In 1728 he became a royal chaplain. In 1731 he married Lady Elizabeth Lee, who died in 1740. He is most well-known for his poem, "The Complaint: or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality," which was published in nine parts. William Henry Seward mentions the poem to Frances in his letter 18330724WHS_FMS.
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http://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00267.shtml
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Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive
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This site, and Bibliotheca Augustana: http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/anglica/Chronology/18thC/Young/you_intr.html list his birth year as 1683.
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Find a Grave lists his birth year as 1681.
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Burial: Saint Marys Church Welwyn Welwyn Hatfield District Hertfordshire, England Plot: Wall tablet. 031 N. Aisle. W. wall. Additional citation: Probate inventory from April 30, 1765, on ancestry.com: http://search.ancestrylibrary.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=RpG1917&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&gss=angs-g&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=edward&gsfn_x=1&gsln=young&gsln_x=1&MSAV=1&msddy=1765&msddy_x=1&catbucket=rstp&uidh=if4&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=3900&recoff=8%209&dbid=5111&indiv=1&ml_rpos=2