French neoclassical playwright, author of Andromaque (1667), Bajazet (1672), Mithridate (1673) and Phèdre (1677).

REFERENCES TO Jean Racine:

Sydney Smith to an anonymous correspondent, on education, [1800 c.?] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

William Godwin to John Philip Kemble, [November? 1800] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 6 December 1805 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 5 May 1807 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Bland to John Herman Merivale, 6 June 1810 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)

Charles Lamb to Peter George Patmore, 19 July 1827 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854)