HENRY JAMES PYE BIOGRAPHY
HENRY JAMES PYE BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
PYE, HENRY JAMES (1745-1813). —A country gentleman of Berkshire, who pub. Poems on Various Subjects and Alfred, an Epic , translated the Poetics of Aristotle, and was Poet Laureate from 1790. In the last capacity he wrote official poems of ludicrous dulness, and was generally a jest and a byword in literary circles.