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Pye, Henry James (1745–1813)| English poet. He was appointed poet laureate 1790. A dutiful and dull writer of official odes, he became a byword for flatness. He also wrote a more effective Comment on the Commentators of Shakespeare 1807. |
| He was born in Faringdon, and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1784 he became MP for Berkshire. |
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