"Oh! he was all perfection": the Earl of Orrery's tribute to his horse, posthumously printed in the Gentleman's Magazine.(Essays)(John Boyle)(Critical essay)

From: ANQ | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Most scholars of eighteenth-century literature know John Boyle, fifth Earl of Cork, fifth Earl of Orrery, and second Baron Marston (1707-62), almost exclusively as the author of Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin [...] (1752), a work whose less-than-adulatory assessment of Swift launched a literary quarrel pitting Boyle against Reverend Patrick Delany and other outraged Swiftean defenders. (1) In fact, Boyle enjoyed a modest degree of recognition during his lifetime beyond the controversy over his Remarks on [...] Swift. A friend ...

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