The son of Joseph Diaper of Somersetshire William Diaper attended Balliol College Oxford (B.A. 1710). He collaborated with Rowe, Sewell, and Cobb in translating Quillet's Callipedea (1712). Diaper then became a protege of Jonathan Swift, who introduced him to Bolingbroke and encouraged him to take orders. Before his early death Diaper held curacies at East Brent, Somerset, at Crick, Northamptonshire, and possibly at Dean near Basingstoke.
TEXT RECORDS:
1712Nereides: Eclogue I.
1712Nereides: Eclogue II.
1712Nereides: Eclogue III.
1712Nereides: Eclogue IV.
1712Nereides: Eclogue IX.
1712Nereides: Eclogue V.
1712Nereides: Eclogue VI.
1712Nereides: Eclogue VII.
1712Nereides: Eclogue VIII.
1712Nereides: Eclogue X.
1712Nereides: Eclogue XI.
1712Nereides: Eclogue XII.
1712Nereides: Eclogue XIII.
1712Nereides: Eclogue XIV.
1712Nereides: To Mr. Congreve.
1713Dryades; or, the Nymphs Prophecy. A Poem.
PUBLICATIONS:
Nereides: or sea-eclogues. 1712.
Dryades, or the nymphs prophecy: a poem. 1713.
An imitation of the seventeenth epistle of the first book of Horace, address'd to Dr. S[wift]. 1714.
Oppian's Haliuticks of the nature of fishes and fishing of the ancients [with John Jones]. 1722.
Complete works, ed. Dorothy Broughton. 1951.
PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:
English
Anglican
Balliol College Oxford
Bachelor of Arts
clergyman
poet
translator
Viscount Bolingbroke
Samuel Cobb
William Congreve
John Philips
Nicholas Rowe
Dr. George Sewell
Rev. Jonathan Swift
REFERENCE:
Not DNB; NCBEL.
Giles Jacob, An Historical Account of ... English Poets (1720); Alexander Pope, Dunciad (1728; 1743); John Nichols, Select Collection of Poems (1780-82); John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes (1812-15); Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica (1824); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); Foster, Alumni Oxon (1887-91); Dorothy Broughton, life in Complete Works (1951); Dobree, OHEL (1959); Pat Rogers, "Faery Lore and the Rape of the Lock" Review of English Studies (1974); Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database (1995).
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BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
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AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
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1. | 1713 John Philips: William Diaper, in Dryades (1713) 4. |
2. | 1713 Matthew Prior: William Diaper, in Dryades (1713) 16-17. |