William Whitehead
Sign in to saveBritish Poet Laureate and playwright (1715–1785)
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- Works
- 11
Top works
- Charge to the Poets
- Millionaire Living in Poverty
- Atys and Adrastus a Tale in the Manner of Dryden's Fables
- The danger of writing verse
- Dieppe 1942
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 165
- Total plays
- 1,655
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 62,861x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 44,803x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,507x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,939x
- Preparation of Graphitic Oxide
· 1958 · cited 28,676x
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Quotes
- “Yes, I’m in love, I feel it now, And Caelia has undone me, And yet I’ll swear I can’t tell how The pleasing plague stole on me.”
- “Her voice, her touch, might give th’ alarm— ’Twas both perhaps, or neither, In short, ’twas that provoking charm Of Caelia altogether.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Family name
- Whitehead
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Cambridge
- Place of death
- Berkeley Square
- Occupation
- writer
- Position held
- Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
- Educated at
- Winchester College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- William Whitehead by Benjamin Wilson.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1715-02-12
- date of death
- 1785-04-14
- place of burial
- Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair
- Commons category
- William Whitehead
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- William Whitehead
- P12749
- Goody Goody
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