Amanda's Test Omeka site | Savage Richard

Birth Date

1697/8

First Name

Richard

Last Name

Savage

Bibliography

Radcliffe.

Biographical Text

friend of Samuel Johnson, notoriouisly claimed illegitimate aristorcratic blood (see ODNB), died in poverty and debt

Occupation

shoemaker poet "among other things"

Death Date

1743

Publications

Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (1726), A Poem sacred to the glorious memory of our late Sovereign Lord, King George, etc. (1727), The Bastard, a poem in five cantos (1728), The Wanderer (1729), Verses occasion’ed by the Viscountess Tyrconnel’s recovery at Bath (1730), The Volunteer Laureat. A poem (1732), On the departure of the Prince and Princess of Orange. A Poem (1734), The Progress of a Divine, a satire in verse (1735), Of Public Spirit in regard to Public works. An epistle in verse... (1737)

OED DNB

Yes

Savage Richard

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