Henry James Pye, English poet and politician (born 1745)

Henry James Pye

English Poet Laureate (1745–1813)

Henry James Pye was an English poet, and Poet Laureate from 1790 until his death. His appointment owed nothing to poetic achievement and was probably a reward for political favours. Pye was merely a competent prose writer, who fancied himself as a poet, earning the derisive…