Laurence Eusden

(1688-1730)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Eusden, Laurence, 1688-1730 DNB: Eusden, Laurence (1688-1730), poet LBT ID: LaEusde1730 VIAF ID: 61837613 LOC ID: n85024779	B/BAP: 1688-09-06 DIED: 1730-09-27
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Whig poet who contributed to the Spectator; in 1718 he succeeded Nicholas Rowe as poet laureate.
REFERENCES TO Laurence Eusden: Charles Lamb to Sarah James, [16 April? 1829] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 14 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1829