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Richard Hurd 1720-1808, English theologian, editor, and critic. From 1781 until his death he was bishop of Worcester. His best-known works are Moral and Political Dialogues (1757) and Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762), an examination of knight-errantry and Gothic literature.

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Hurd, Richard (1720–1808), bishop successively of Lichfield and Worcester. His Moral and Political Dialogues appeared in 1759. Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762) is an important reassessment of Elizabethan literature: Hurd was notably sympathetic to Spenser, argued that the ‘Gothic’ was more poetic than the ‘Grecian’, and that neo-classical rules were inappropriately applied to chivalric romances, which were composed on different but no less artistic principles.

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