Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) And the Essay On Heroic Poetry (Second Edition, 1697)

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Samuel Wesley (1662-1735), is now known as the father of a great religious leader, John Wesley; in his own time he was known to many as a poet and a writer of controversial prose. His poetic career began in 1685 with the publication of Maggots, a collection of juvenile verses on trivial subjects, the preface to which, a frothy concoction, apologizes to the reader because the book is neither grave nor gay. During the run of the Athenian Gazette (1691-1697) he joined with Richard Sault and John No

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rris in assisting John Dunton, the promoter of the undertaking. His second venture in poetry, the Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour, an epic largely in heroic couplets with a prefatory discourse on heroic poetry, appeared in 1693, was reissued in 1694, and was honoured with a second edition in 1697. In 1695 he dutifully came forward with Elegies, lamenting the deaths of Queen Mary II and Archbishop Tillotson. An Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) was followed by at least four other volumes of verse, the last of which was issued in 1717. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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