NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Greenfield, William, d. 1827 DNB: Greenfield, William (1755-1827), Church of Scotland minister and literary critic LBT ID: WiGreen1827 VIAF ID: 92447215 LOC ID: nr91034138 | B/BAP: 1755-02-02 DIED: 1827-04-28 |
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Regius chair of rhetoric and belles-lettres at Edinburgh, a position from which he was
forced to flee to England in 1798, where he published Essays on the
Sources of the Pleasures Received from Literary Compositions (1809). | |