Richard Savage (poet)
English poet (c. 1697–1743) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Richard Savage (c. 1697 – 1 August 1743) was an English poet. He is best known as the subject of Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage, originally published anonymously in 1744, which is based on one of the most elaborate of Johnson's Lives of the English Poets.
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Born | c. 1697 England |
Died | 1 August 1743 (aged 46) Bristol |
Occupation | Poet, satirist |
Relatives | Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers (father, disputed) Anne Gerard, Countess of Macclesfield (mother, disputed) |
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