Works
- Prose
- -Summary of the Duties of a Justice of the Peace out of Sessions (1808)
- - The Democrat (1795)
- - The Aristocrat (1799)
- Poetry
- -Poems on Various Subjects (1787), first substantial collection of Pye's verse
- -Adelaide: a Tragedy in Five Acts (1800)
- -Alfred (1801)
- Translations
- -Aristotle's Poetics (1792)
| Parliament of Great Britain | ||
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| Preceded by John Elwes (politician) Winchcombe Henry Hartley |
Member for Berkshire 1784–1790 |
Succeeded by George Vansittart Winchcombe Henry Hartley |
| Court offices | ||
| Preceded by Thomas Warton |
British Poet Laureate 1790–1813 |
Succeeded by Robert Southey |
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