John Dennis

(1658-1734)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Dennis, John, 1657-1734 NRA: Dennis, John (1657-1734) Author DNB: Dennis, John (1658-1734), literary critic LBT ID: JoDenni1734 VIAF ID: 100973436 LOC ID: n79079276	B/BAP: 1658-09-16 DIED: 1734-01-06
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English playwright and critic who feuded with Alexander Pope; he was author of The Advancement and Reformation of Modern Poetry (1701).
REFERENCES TO John Dennis: Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 March 1815 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to William Sotheby, 25 September 1815 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to John Murray, 27 September 1815 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Observations on Coleridge's Biographia Literaria” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (October 1817) 3-18 Found 1: ¶ 42 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 5 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 6 April 1825 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1815 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “The Reader. Life of Lord Byron. By John Galt” in The Tatler 1 (4 September 1830) 3-4 Found 1: ¶ 2 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. XII” in New Monthly Magazine 82 (February 1848) 250-57 Found 1: ¶ 15 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 21 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter X Found 1: ¶ 15 Chapter XIV Found 1: ¶ 5 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1825