Thomas Cooke [Hesiod Cooke]

(1703-1756)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cooke, Thomas, 1703-1756 DNB: Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756), translator and writer LBT ID: ThCooke1756 VIAF ID: 19715963 LOC ID: n83041838	B/BAP: 1703-12-16 DIED: 1756-12-29
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Whig poet and translator assailed by Pope in the Dunciad; his translation of Hesiod (1728) was long reprinted.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Cooke [Hesiod Cooke]: William Gifford to Francis Hodgson, 25 April 1809 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 2 Grahame, James, 1790-1842, Two Letters (Edinburgh: John Fairbairn, 1817) Found 1: ¶ 12 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVIII Found 1: ¶ 12 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter V. 1808-1809.