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Richard Savage (1697-1743)

Richard Savage (c. 1697 – 1 August 1743) was an English poet. He is best known as the subject of Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage, (originally published anonymously in 1744), on which is based one of the most elaborate of Johnson's Lives of the English Poets.

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The works of Richard Savage, Esq., son of the Earl Rivers

Richard Savage
1777

Various poems. The wanderer, a moral poem. The triumph of mirth and health. And The bastard. By the late Richard Savage, Esq. To which is prefixed a preface giving some account of them.

Richard Savage
1761

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