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Often appears with: richard evelyn · mourning and grief · education of children · education and the training of the young · child prodigy
Usually: narrative (1) · grief and loss (1) · lament (1)
Evelyn mourns the death of his young son Richard in January 1658 after severe quartan ague, gives an extraordinary account of the child’s learning and piety, and links the grief to Evelyn’s writings and translations on children’s education and gardening.
given himself to literature, although his third work was published in 1656, _An Essay on the First Book of T. Lucretius Cerus de Rerum Natura. Interpreted and made English Verse_. In January, 1658, heavy sorrow fell upon Evelyn by the death of his younger son, an infant prodigy, and a sad and wonderful example of a young brain being terribly overtaxed. ‘After six fits of a quartan ague with which it pleased God to v…