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Chasing Somervile, New College’s Poet of the Hunt
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(2022): 18
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The two principal passions in the life of William Somervile (1675–1742) appear to have been hunting and poetry, which together combined in his most celebrated work, the four-volume hunting georgic poem The Chace (1735). Somervile was schooled in Stratford-upon-Avon, and thereafter Winchester College, before proceeding to New College, where he later became a fellow. New College Library’s holdings of his works are extensive, varied, and remarkable.
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