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Nathaniel Evans was born in Philadelphia.
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Nathaniel Evans was born in Philadelphia.
His father, Edward Evans, was a merchant and looked forward to a mercantile career for his son. Wishing him to be well educated, however, he sent him to the Academy, recently established by citizens of Philadelphia under the leadership of Benjamin Franklin, and presided over by Rev. William Smith.
He was then put into a counting-house, but having little taste for business, at the expiration of his apprenticeship he returned to the Academy, which in 1754 had become a college with the power to grant degrees.
In 1765, because of his exceptional gifts and promise, he was awarded an M. A. by special act of the trustees, although he had not previously received a bachelor’s degree.
Highly commended by prominent Philadelphians both for his prudence and religious zeal as well as for the “many specimens of genius” which he had shown, he went to England where, sponsored by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, he was ordained by Dr. Richard Terrick, Bishop of London. After several months abroad, he returned as missionary for Gloucester County, New Jersey, and chaplain to Lord Viscount Kilmorey of Ireland. In less than two years, however, he died of tuberculosis at his home in Haddonfield, New Jersey, and “thus hastily, ” as he had written of his friend, the poet Thomas Godfrey, “was snatch’d off in the prime of manhood this very promising genius, beloved and lamented by all who knew him. ” His body was taken to Philadelphia and buried in Christ Church. When but sixteen years old he wrote a Pastoral Eclogue in which he asks if other lands shall resound with heavenly lays, No beauties charm us, or no deeds inspire?” He was the author of An Ode on the Late Glorious Successes of His Majesty’s Arms, and the Present Greatness of the English Nation, published in 1762, and in the following year wrote exercises performed at the Commencement of the College of Philadelphia and the college at Princeton. (See Poems, etc. , and A Dialogue on Peace, an Entertainment given by the Senior Class at Nassau Hall, 1763. ) In 1765 he prepared an edition of Thomas Godfrey’s works with a memoir, Juvenile Poems on Various Subjects, with The Prince of Parthia, a Tragedy. On his way home from England he had met Elizabeth Graeme, later Mrs. Ferguson, with whom he carried on a versified correspondence. To her, just before his death, and to his old teacher and friend, Dr. Smith, he committed his papers. From these, in 1772, the latter, having secured 759 subscribers, published Poems on Several Occasions, with Some Other Compositions. In his introduction the editor includes what seems to have been intended as a preface, written by Evans, and revealing his high conception of the function of poetry. The volume also contains a sermon on “The Love of the World Incompatible with the Love of God” (published separately, 1766). The poems are the work of a youthful student of the English poets, and are imitative of Milton, Cowley, Prior, Gray, and Collins, but are not without beauty, grace, and spontaneity.
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sponsored by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, he was ordained by Dr. Richard Ter- rick, Bishop of London
Evans was one of the Philadelphia group which included, among others, Francis Hopkin- son and Thomas Godfrey, whose members had high literary ideals and sought to develop literature in America.
