Birth date:
1697
Death date:
1743
Birth town:
Country:
England
Richard Savage's main claim to fame was Samuel Johnson's biography which claimed that he was as illegitimate child descended from a noble line forced into poverty and misery by a mother whose sole aim and purpose in life was his destruction, Savage was a friend of Johnson's but this biography is disbelieved by most scholars and now has been discredited.
Richard Savage wrote two poems; The Bastard (1728) and The Wanderer (1729), and two comedies.
In 1727 he killed a man in a tavern brawl and was sentenced to death but was later pardoned. He died in poverty.
Poems by this Poet
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| The Employment of Beauty | 5 September 2014 |
(1 vote) |
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| On False Historians | 5 September 2014 |
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| On the Recovery of a Lady of Quality | 5 September 2014 |
(1 vote) |
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| Verses Occasioned by the Right Hon. the Lady Viscountess Tyrconnel's Recovery at Bath | 5 September 2014 |
(1 vote) |
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| Apology to Brillante, For Having Long Omitted Writing in Verse, An | 5 September 2014 |
No votes yet |
0 |
| Now in the patron's mansion see the wight | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
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| In gayer hours, when high my fancy ran | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
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| Epitaph on Mrs. Jones | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
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| Volunteer Laureat, The. A Poem on Her Majesty's Birth-Day, 1732-3 | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
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| Volunteer Laureat, The. A Poem on Her Majesty's Birth-Day, 1734-5 | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
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