NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819 NRA: Wolcot, John (1738-1819), poet and satirist, pseudonym Peter Pindar DNB: Wolcot, John [pseud. Peter Pindar] (bap. 1738, d. 1819), poet and satirist LBT ID: JoWolco1819 VIAF ID: 24590473 LOC ID: n50064284 | B/BAP: 1738-05-09 DIED: 1819-01-14 |
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
English satirist who made his reputation by ridiculing the Royal Academicians and the
royal family. | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF John Wolcot [Peter Pindar]: John Wolcot to Sir Richard Phillips, [1800?] in Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on
Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) John Wolcot to William Godwin, 8 January 1802 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) |