Joseph Spence [Sir Harry Beaumont] (1699-1768)
English essayist, friend of Pope, Oxford Professor of Poetry, and patron of Stephen Duck
and Thomas Blacklock; author of Polymetis: or, An Enquiry concerning the
Agreement between the Works of the Roman Poets, and the Remains of the Antient
Artists (1747).
English essayist, friend of Pope, Oxford Professor of Poetry, and patron of Stephen Duck
and Thomas Blacklock; author of Polymetis: or, An Enquiry concerning the
Agreement between the Works of the Roman Poets, and the Remains of the Antient
Artists (1747).