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| | Richard Jago |
 | | English poet, third son of Richard Jago, rector of Beaudesert, Warwickshire, was born in 1715. |
 | | Jago's best-known poem, The Blackbirds, was first printed in Hawkesworth's Adventurer (No. 37, March 13, 1753), and was generally attributed to Gilbert West, but Jago published it in his own name, with other poems, in R. Dodsley's Collection of Poems (vol. |
 | | Shortly before his death Jago revised his poems, and they were published in 1784 by his friend, John Scott Hylton, as Poems Moral and Descriptive. |
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