Poetry
Jago's best-known poem, "The Blackbirds", was first printed in Hawkesworths 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 Robert Dodsley's Collection of Poems (vol. iv., 1755). In 1767 appeared a topographical poem, "Edge Hill, or the Rural Prospect delineated and moralized"; two separate sermons were published in 1755; and in 1768 "Labor and Genius, a Fable". 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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