Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Robert Lowth
Standard Name: Lowth, Robert
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Francis | AF
's preliminary discourse is scholarly in tone, referencing not only Harmer
but also Robert Lowth
and Bishop Simon Patrick
. Her final expression of modesty is humble only in face of the sublimity and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Clara Reeve | Charoba is CR
's retelling of a story which she almost certainly found in Elizabeth Singer Rowe
's History of Joseph. She builds here on Rowe (rather than on Bishop Lowth
) in suggesting... |
| Publishing | Mary Deverell | MD
had apparently finished this poem in draft by 1782. |
| Publishing | Anne Francis | She quoted Pindar
in Greek on the title page, and dedicated the work in a full-page inscription to John Parkhurst
of Epsom, author of a Hebrew lexicon, Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Publishing | Mary Jones | This volume was dedicated to the Princess of Orange
: Anne, daughter of George II
and the late Queen Caroline
. The princess's mother had been a patron of MJ
's friend Martha Lovelace, later... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Her narrative, in iambic couplets, was influenced, as most biblical re-tellings were, both by Milton
's Paradise Lost and by Matthew Prior
's Solomon (which elsewhere she praised in verse). Lori A. Davis Perry
suggests... |
| Textual Production | Olaudah Equiano | OE
composed a memorial or petition to the Bishop of London (at this date the writer Robert Lowth
), asking to be sent to Africa to prevail upon his countrymen to become Christians, i.e... |
Timeline
1761: Joseph Priestley published The Rudiments...
Writing climate item
1761
Joseph Priestley
published The Rudiments of English Grammar; adapted to the use of schools. With observations on style.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
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