The Maryland colonial connection adds a twist to a pleasinly representative clerical/belletristic career--Sterling attends TCD, writes verse tragedy for the Dublin stage, takes orders after his actress wife dies, and then writes another play as well as some sanguinary jingoistic sermons and some collected verse. Dedications to colonial politicians and the Prince of Wales complete the picture. Again, we have poetry as an almost bureacratic genre within Hanoverian church and government (poem as grant proposal)?