Yalden, Thomas

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

(1670-1736)


Poet, s. of an exciseman at Oxf., and ed. at Magdalen Coll., entered the Church, in which he obtained various preferments. He was the author of a considerable number of poems, including a Hymn to Darkness, Pindaric Odes, and translations from the classics.

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