Thomas Parnell
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- This article is about the poet. Thomas Parnell (scientist) started the pitch drop experiment in 1927
Thomas Parnell (September 11, 1679 – October 24, 1718) was a poet, born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a friend of both Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, contributing to The Spectator, and aiding Pope in his translation of The Iliad.
Pope collected and edited his poems in 1721, and Oliver Goldsmith wrote a biography of him.
