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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| Poem |
Post date |
Rating | Comments |
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| Sent to Mrs. Bridget Jones, With the Wanderer, a Poem | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
0 |
| The Poet's Dependence on a Statesman | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
0 |
| The Genius of Liberty | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
0 |
| London and Bristol. Delineated | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
0 |
| Verses Occasioned by Reading Mr. Aaron Hill's Poem Called Gideon | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
0 |
| Fulvia | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
0 |
| Character of the Rev. James Foster | 19 May 2014 |
No votes yet |
0 |
| Prologue, Spoken at the Revival of Shakspere's King Henry VI | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
0 |
| Epitaph on Mrs. Jones | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
0 |
| Volunteer Laureat, The. A Poem on Her Majesty's Birth-Day, 1732-3 | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
0 |