I  Aabok  Hcll  (168^1749),  best  known  through
the  conflict  with  Pope,  on  which  he  ventured  afl«r
being  satirized  in  tiie  Dunciod.  Seventeen  plays
are  attributed  to  him,  besides  some  other  writings
now  altogether  forgotten.  The  style  is  correct  but
cold,  fashioned  on  the  model  of  the  French  writers.
Wm,  Whitehead  (1716-1788),  poet  laureate  on
the  death  of  Gibber,  after  Gray  had  refused  theoffice^
He  wrote  seven  dramas,  of  wMch  the  most  impor-
tant are  the  Soman  Father,  1750,  and  Creusa,  1754.
Db.  James  Gbatngeb  (1721-1767)  was  bom  at
Dunse,  coimty  Berwick,  was  a  surgeon  in  the  army,
and  afterwards  went  to  the  West  Indies.  He  wrote
the  Sugar  Cane,  Vfhlih.  has  been  severely  dealt  with
by  the  critics.    He  calls  the  negroes  "  swains."

Among  the  translators  of  this  age  are  to  be  men-
tioned—

Gilbebt  West  (1705-1756),  who  translated  Pin-
dar, 1749,  and  wrote  some  original  works.  He  was
a  ftiend  and  connection  of  Pitt  and  Lyttelton,  and
was  appointed  by  Townshend  one  of  the  Clerks  of
the  Privy  Council.  He  is  now  best  known  by  his
Observations  on  the  Hesurrection  (1780).  Lord
Lyttelton  addressed  to  hiw,  his  "  Diaaertationon  the
Conversion  of  St  Paul."    (See  p.  847,  A.)

Elizabeth  Cakteb  (1717-1806),  who  published
a  translation  of  Epictetus  in  1758,  besides  various
original  poems,  was  most  highly  esteemed  by  John-
son, and  her  Ode  tu  Wisdom  is  given  by  Richard-
son in  his  second  novel,  ClarHssa  HarloiDe.
The  principal  Scottish  poet  of  this  period  is—

TtOBEET  FbbGtjsson  (1750-1774),  who  was  bom
in  Edinburgh,  educated  at  St.  Andrew's,  and  died
at  an  early  age,  having  ruined  his  health  by  dissi-
pation. His  style  and  manner  exercised  no  small
influence  upon  Bums,  whose  "poetical progenitor  "
he  has  been  c^lcd.  His  suecessfbl  pieces  are  in  tha
Scotch  dialect.
