Sir Richard Blackmore

(1654-1729)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Blackmore, Richard, Sir, d. 1729 NRA: Blackmore, Richard Doddridge (1825-1900), author DNB: Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729), physician and writer LBT ID: RiBlack1729 VIAF ID: 78786095 LOC ID: n79117886	B/BAP: 1654-01-22 DIED: 1729-10-09
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Physician, poet, and critic who was the subject of much abuse among the wits; he was author of Prince Arthur: an Heroick Poem in Ten Books (1695) and several other epics allegorizing Whig doctrines.
REFERENCES TO Sir Richard Blackmore: Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 12 June 1796 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie, [11? December 1818] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Verse 1: p. 216a Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter V Found 2: ¶ ¶ Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1821 Found 1: ¶ 4 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1818-19 Verse 1: p. 216a Thomas Medwin, “Hazlitt in Switzerland: a Conversation” in Fraser’s Magazine 19 (March 1839) 278-283 Found 1: ¶ 26 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. IV. 1796 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVI 1818 Found 1: ¶ 8 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter XII. Found 1: ¶ 69