biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1697–1743)
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| biography:
| English poet and satirist. He declared himself the illegitimate son of the 4th Earl Rivers, led a dissipated life, and came to prominence as the subject of a biography by Dr Samuel Johnson (1744). His work includes Miscellaneous Poems (1728), The Convocation (1717), and the moral and descriptive poem in five cantos, ‘The Wanderer’ (1729). |
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