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Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers (father, disputed) Anne Gerard, Countess of Macclesfield (mother, disputed) Richard Savage (c. 1697 – 1 August 1743) was an English poet. He is best known as the subject of Samuel Johnson 's Life of Savage, originally published anonymously in 1744, which is based on one of the most elaborate of Johnson's Lives ...
- Poet, satirist
- 1 August 1743 (aged 46), Bristol
- c. 1697, England
- Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers (father, disputed), Anne Gerard, Countess of Macclesfield (mother, disputed)
Apr 5, 2024 · Richard Savage was an English poet and satirist and subject of one of the best short biographies in English, Samuel Johnson’s An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage (1744). By his own account in the preface to the second edition of his Miscellaneous Poems (1728; 1st ed., 1726), Savage was the
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Note: Richard Savage was the son of the Earl of Rivers and the Countess of Macclesfield, and was born in London, 1698. His mother, who had begot him in adultery after having openly avowed her criminality, in order to obtain a divorce from her husband, placed the boy under the care of a poor woman, who brought him up as her son. His maternal ...
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Dec 26, 2023 · Life of Richard Savage (An Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers) is a biography about the “peculiar misfortunes” of the poet Richard Savage.Written in 1744 by ...
Richard Savage was an 18 th century English poet and writer of tragi-comedy plays whose historical details are, unusually, mostly known from the contents of a biography written about him by Samuel Johnson, which he called Life of Mr Richard Savage. This book was published in 1744, a year after the subject’s death.
Radcliffe, David H., ed. Richard Savage (1697 ca.-1743). Spenser and the Tradition: ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830 . Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech , 2006 .
Richard Savage 1697-1743. English poet, playwright, and essayist. Savage's literary reputation rests almost entirely on two poems, The Bastard (1728) and The Wanderer (1729). Based on his bitter ...
