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Savage, Richard
Savage, Richard (c.1697–1743), claimed to be the illegitimate son of the fourth Earl Rivers and Lady Macclesfield, but the story of his birth and ill treatment given by Dr Johnson in his remarkable life (1744, reprinted in The Lives of the English Poets) has been largely discredited. Johnson describes Savage's career as a struggling writer, his pardon after conviction on a murder charge in 1727, and his poverty-stricken death in a Bristol gaol. Savage wrote two plays and various odes and satires, but is remembered as a poet for The Wanderer (1729) and ‘The Bastard’ (1728), a spirited attack on his ‘Mother, yet no Mother’.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Savage, Richard." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Savage, Richard." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-SavageRichard.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Savage, Richard." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-SavageRichard.html |
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Richard Savage
Richard Savage 1697?–1743, English poet. The now discredited story of his illegitimate descent from a noble line and of his persecutions, which are set forth in a biography by Samuel Johnson, won him a reputation that his works scarcely merited. His output includes 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 later was pardoned. He died in poverty. |
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"Richard Savage." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Richard Savage." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Savage-R.html "Richard Savage." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Savage-R.html |
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