Thomas Creech (1659-1700) belonged to Wadham College, Oxford, and afterwards obtained a Fellowship at All Souls. His translation of Lucretius, published in 1682, obtained wide popularity, and, with his later annotated edition of the text, earned him considerable respect from judges of weight. He followed this up by numerous other translations, one of which especially — that of Juvenal's 13th Satire — won the admiration of Warton. In 1684 he essayed that task which has proved a pitfall to so many — a verse translation of Horace. The fact that it was dedicated to Dryden would not lessen Swift's readiness to satirize it: but it was poor enough to deserve all the contempt which the episode here described implies. Creech committed suicide in 1700.