Birth date: 
1679
Death date: 
1718
Birth town: 
Country: 
Ireland

Thomas Parnell is more remembered for the fact that Johnson wrote his biography than for his poetry, which was published by Pope after his death.

Parnell was born in Dublin in 1679 to a man of commonwealth, also by the name of Thomas Parnell. At the age of fourteen, he entered Trinity College of Dublin, and at the age of twenty became deacon in the Episcopal church. Being promoted to archdeacon, in 1706 he married the daughter of Thomas Minchin of Tipperary. Five years later, she died. Around this time, he became more deeply attached to the Scribblerus circle. He wrote the introduction to Pope's Iliad. In 1718, just two years after being presented the vicarage of Finglass, he died on the way to Ireland (presumably of heavy drink).

The only poems published during his lifetime were in periodicals. After his death, his friends published some of his best poems and wrote his elgy. His biography is in the famous Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets.

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On Divine Love By Meditating On The Wounds Of Christ 31 July 2013
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On Dr. Brown's Death 31 July 2013
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On Happiness In This Life 31 July 2013
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On Mr Colliers Essay On The Stage 31 July 2013
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On Mr Pope Drawing D Swifts Picture 31 July 2013
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On Mrs. Ar F Leaving London 31 July 2013
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On Platina Prosperus Spiriteus 31 July 2013
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On Queen Anne's Peace, Anno 1713 31 July 2013
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On Riding to See Dean Swift in the Mist of the Morning 19 May 2014
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On Sr Charles Porter The Chancellours Death 31 July 2013
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