Elkanah Settle

(1648-1724)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724 NRA: Settle Elkanah (1648-1728) City Poet DNB: Settle, Elkanah (1648-1724), playwright LBT ID: ElSettl1724 VIAF ID: 2480468 LOC ID: n79129002	B/BAP: 1648-02-01 DIED: 1724-02-12
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English playwright, author of the Empress of Morocco (1673); his strident whiggery made him a target of attacks by Dryden and Pope.
REFERENCES TO Elkanah Settle: Charles Lamb to Robert Southey, [9 August 1815] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 2 August 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1821 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1815 Found 1: ¶ 5