Joseph Trapp
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Joseph Trapp was an English clergyman, academic, poet and pamphleteer. His production as a younger man of occasional verse and dramas led to his appointment as the first Oxford Professor of Poetry in
Portrait of Joseph Trapp by unknown artist (early 18th century)
Occasional poetry
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Occasional poetry is poetry composed for a particular occasion. In the history of literature, it is often studied in connection with orality, performance, and patronage.
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…
Goethe said that "Occasional Poetry is the highest kind" (Goethe in the Roman Campagna, 1786)
1669 occasional sonnet printed in Urbino