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Frere, John Hookham

▪ English diplomat and writer
pseudonym  William and Robert Whistlecraft  
born May 21, 1769, London, Eng.
died Jan. 7, 1846, Valletta, Malta

      British diplomat and man of letters.

      Frere was educated at Eton, where he met the future statesman George Canning (Canning, George) (with whom he collaborated on The Anti-Jacobin), and at the University of Cambridge. He entered the Foreign Office, in 1799 becoming undersecretary of state for foreign affairs and in 1800 going to Portugal as envoy extraordinary. His diplomatic career ended disastrously in 1808, when he was blamed for endangering the British army by advising its commander, Sir John Moore, against retreat from the French to La Coruña, Spain. He was recalled and spent the rest of his life in retirement, residing in Malta after 1820.

      Frere is remembered for witty parodies in The Anti-Jacobin (1797–98), a weekly that opposed revolution in England and abroad; for his brilliance as a translator; and for his experiments with metre. He reintroduced into English verse the Italian ottava rima, an eight-line stanza with a skillfully interwoven rhyme scheme, which he used effectively in his mock-heroic Arthurian epic The Monks and the Giants (1817–18). Byron's use of this form in Don Juan (1819–24) was inspired by Frere's example. He also showed a mastery of metre in his translations of four plays by Aristophanes, the greatest of the Greek comic dramatists.

Additional Reading
Gabrielle Festing, John Hookham Frere and His Friends (1899).

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Источник: Frere, John Hookham

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