Henry James Pye

(1745-1813)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Pye, Henry James, 1745-1813 NRA: Pye Henry James (1745-1813) Poet Laureate DNB: Pye, Henry James (1745-1813), poet LBT ID: HePye1813 VIAF ID: 2749783 LOC ID: n83024706	B/BAP: 1745-02-20 DIED: 1813-08-11
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Succeeded William Whitehead as Poet Laureate in 1790; Pye first attracted attention with Elegies on Different Occasions (1768); author of The Progress of Refinement: a Poem (1783).