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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Greenfield, William, d. 1827 DNB: Greenfield, William (1755-1827), Church of Scotland minister and literary critic LBT ID: WiGreen1827 VIAF ID: 92447215 LOC ID: nr91034138 | B/BAP: 1755-02-02 DIED: 1827-04-28 |
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Regius chair of rhetoric and belles-lettres at Edinburgh, a position from which he was
forced to flee to England in 1798, where he published Essays on the
Sources of the Pleasures Received from Literary Compositions (1809). | |
REFERENCES TO William Greenfield: Walter Scott to John Murray, 19 March 1809 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1:
¶ 3 John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 1 March 1817 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of
John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1:
¶ 5 | |
