Robert Lowth

Standard Name: Lowth, Robert

Connections

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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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
It was dedicated to Lord Aldborough . Subscribers included George Crabbe , Richard Graves , Jonas Hanway , Dr Robert Lowth , Hannah More ...
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/.
as a small testament to his merit, and...
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).
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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