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Dodsley, Robert
Dodsley, Robert (1703–64), wrote several poems while a footman in the service of the Hon. Mrs Lowther, including Servitude (anon., 1729). He set up as a bookseller and wrote several plays, including a musical play, The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (1741). He is chiefly remembered as the publisher of works by Pope, Dr Johnson, E. Young, Goldsmith, T. Gray, Akenside, and Shenstone and of A Collection of Poems, by Several Hands (1748–58, revised and continued by Pearch, 1775) which was a classic and influential statement of mid-18th-cent. taste. In 1758 he founded, in conjunction with Burke, The Annual Register. He also has the credit of having suggested the compiling of a dictionary to Dr Johnson.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Dodsley, Robert." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Dodsley, Robert." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-DodsleyRobert.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Dodsley, Robert." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-DodsleyRobert.html |
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Robert Dodsley
Robert Dodsley 1703–64, English publisher and author. He wrote occasional verses, and also several plays, including The King and the Miller of Mansfield (1737); a ballad opera, The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (1741); and the tragedy Cleone (1758). He is best known, however, as the publisher of works by Pope, Johnson, Gray, and Goldsmith and as the editor of A Select Collection of Old Plays (12 vol., 1744) and A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (6 vol., 1748–58). He founded with Burke the Annual Register (1758), which still exists. |
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"Robert Dodsley." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Robert Dodsley." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Dodsley.html "Robert Dodsley." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Dodsley.html |
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