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GLOVER, RICHARD (1712-1785)

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GLOVER, See also:RICHARD (1712-1785) , See also:English poet, son of Richard Glover, a See also:Hamburg See also:merchant, was See also:born in See also:London in 1712. He was educated at Cheam in See also:Surrey. While there he wrote in his sixteenth See also:year a poem to the memory of See also:Sir See also:Isaac See also:Newton, which was prefixed by Dr Pemberton to his View of Newton's See also:Philosophy, published in 1728. In 1737 he published an epic poem in praise of See also:liberty, See also:Leonidas, which was thought to have a See also:special reference to the politics of the See also:time; and being warmly commended by the See also:prince of See also:Wales and his See also:court, it soon passed through several See also:editions. In 1739 Glover published a poem entitled London, or the Progress of See also:Commerce; and in the same year, with a view to exciting the nation against the Spaniards, he wrote a spirited ballad, Hosier's See also:Ghost, very popular in its See also:day. He was also the author of two tragedies, See also:Boadicea (1753) and See also:Medea (1761), written in See also:close See also:imitation of See also:Greek See also:models. The success of Glover's Leonidas led him to take considerable See also:interest in politics, and in 1761 he entered See also:parliament as member for See also:Weymouth. He died on the 25th of See also:November 1785. The Athenaid, an epic in See also:thirty books, was published in 1787, and his See also:diary, entitled See also:Memoirs of a distinguished See also:literary and See also:political See also:Character from 1742 to 1757, appeared in 1813. Glover was one of the reputed authors of See also:Junius; but his claims—which were advocated in an Inquiry concerning the author of the Letters of Junius (1815), by R. Duppa—See also:rest on very slight grounds.

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