Joseph Trapp
Joseph Trapp (1679–1747) was an English clergyman, academic, poet and pamphleteer. His production as a younger man of
occasional verse (some anonymous, or in Latin) and dramas led to his appointment as the first
Oxford Professor of Poetry in 1708. Later his
High Church opinions established him in preferment and position. As a poet, he was not well thought of by contemporaries, with
Jonathan Swift refusing a dinner in an unavailing attempt to avoid revising one of Trapp’s poems, and
Abel Evans making an epigram on his
blank verse translation of the
Aeneid with a reminder of the commandment against murder.
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