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Property / Biographical notes: Overall: Chesterfield was near the apex of English society--born to high rank, rich, and serving a series of politically important roles and positions in both govt. and opposition. As far as I can tell from the DNB and from the spotty record of his authorship in the ESTC, he did not use poetry as an aristocratic attainment in its own right on the Spenserian/Sidneyan Renaissance model (did anyone in the mid 18-c? Horace Walpole?) Rather, he used it the way other whig political writers did--as a political tool in the London press, a continuation of prose political essays by other means.; note also huge flood of posthumous publications in ESTC / reference | |||
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* 1694-09-22, + 1773-03-24, British statesman and man of letters
Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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English | Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield |
* 1694-09-22, + 1773-03-24, British statesman and man of letters |
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24 March 1773Gregorian
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Education: Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Patrons: [Chesterfield was himself a patron, though not a very successful one, as Johnson can attest--ESTC shows many works addressed or dedicated to him, some by obvious social inferiors but also one by the Earl of Orrery]
Reception: Aaron Hill; John Dyer; William Bond; Richard Savage
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Periodicals etc.: Chesterfield's known miscellaneous writings were essays contributed to The Craftsman, to Common Sense, Old England, and The World.; The poetic and satirical squibs, including one directed at Queen ; Caroline, though admired, do not have the cutting edge of those by ; Hervey or Charles Hanbury-Williams. (DNB)
Overall: Chesterfield was near the apex of English society--born to high rank, rich, and serving a series of politically important roles and positions in both govt. and opposition. As far as I can tell from the DNB and from the spotty record of his authorship in the ESTC, he did not use poetry as an aristocratic attainment in its own right on the Spenserian/Sidneyan Renaissance model (did anyone in the mid 18-c? Horace Walpole?) Rather, he used it the way other whig political writers did--as a political tool in the London press, a continuation of prose political essays by other means.; note also huge flood of posthumous publications in ESTC
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