biography
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| lived:
| (1657–1734)
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| biography:
| Critic and playwright, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge, toured France and Italy, took his place among the men of fashion, and produced biting criticism to support the Whigs. He wrote nine tragedies, but had little success with them. His drama Appius and Virginia (1709) was satirized for its bombast by Pope in his Essay on Criticism (1711), thus beginning a long feud. Dennis is best known for his critical work, ‘An Essay on the Genius and Writings of William Shakespeare’ (1712). |
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