Richard Savage

(1698-1743)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Savage, Richard, d. 1743 NRA: Savage Richard (d 1743) Poet DNB: Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743), poet and playwright LBT ID: RiSavag1743 VIAF ID: 4957961 LOC ID: n83122662	B/BAP: 1698-10-10 DIED: 1743-08-01
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Maladroit English poet, the reputed son of Earl Rivers, who was immortalized by Samuel Johnson in his Life of Savage (1744).
REFERENCES TO Richard Savage: Charles Lamb to William Godwin, 9 September 1801 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to William Godwin, 16 September 1801 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to William Godwin, 18 September 1801 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to William Godwin, 18 September 1801 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sir Walter Scott to Alan Cunningham, 27 April 1821 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to Walter Wilson, 24 February 1823 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1824 Found 1: ¶ 116 “[Moore’s Letters and Journals of Lord Byron]” in Literary Gazette (8 January 1831) 23-25 Found 1: ¶ 15 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 2 Chapter III 1821 Chapter IV 1825 Found 1: ¶ 55 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. VIII” in New Monthly Magazine 81 (October 1847) 227-40 Found 1: ¶ 12 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 16: British Association Found 1: ¶ 14 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VII. Found 1: ¶ 4 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IV. 1801-1803 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1801 Found 1: ¶ 3 Letters: 1823 Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) THOMAS DE QUINCEY Found 1: ¶ 11 COUNT PECCHIO Found 1: ¶ 12