NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Blackmore, Richard, Sir, d. 1729 NRA: Blackmore, Richard Doddridge (1825-1900), author DNB: Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729), physician and writer LBT ID: RiBlack1729 VIAF ID: 78786095 LOC ID: n79117886 | B/BAP: 1654-01-22 DIED: 1729-10-09 |
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Physician, poet, and critic who was the subject of much abuse among the wits; he was
author of Prince Arthur: an Heroick Poem in Ten Books (1695) and
several other epics allegorizing Whig doctrines. | |