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About Thomas Cooke
Thomas Cooke, often called "Hesiod" Cooke, was an active English translator and author who ran afoul of Alexander Pope and was mentioned as one of the "dunces" in Pope's Dunciad. His father was an innkeeper. He was educated at Felsted. Cooke arrived in London in 1722 and began working as a writer for the Whig causes. He associated with Thomas Tickell, Ambrose Philips, Leonard Welsted, Richard Steele, and John Dennis. Cooke is the source of one of the primary biographies of John Dennis, which he wrote in Latin.
Everything about Thomas Cooke →- Occupation
- writer, translator, poet
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- 1703
- Died
- December 29, 1756, 1756