Poems
- A Poem, Sacred To The Glorious Memory Of King George
- A Poem: To The Memory Of Mrs. Oldfield
- An Epistle Of The Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole
- Nature In Perfection
- Of Public Spirit In Regard To Public Works: An Epistle, To His Royal Highness Frederick Prince Of Wa
- The Authors: A Satire
- The Convocation: A Poem
- The Progress Of A Divine: Satire
- The Wanderer: A Vision: Canto I
- The Wanderer: A Vision: Canto Ii
Analysis of poems
- A Poem, Sacred To The Glorious Memory Of King George
- A Poem: To The Memory Of Mrs. Oldfield
- An Epistle Of The Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole
- Nature In Perfection
- Of Public Spirit In Regard To Public Works: An Epistle, To His Royal Highness Frederick Prince Of Wa
- The Authors: A Satire
- The Convocation: A Poem
- The Progress Of A Divine: Satire
- The Wanderer: A Vision: Canto I
- The Wanderer: A Vision: Canto Ii
The themes Richard Savage wrote about
Biography
Richard Savage's main claim to fame was Samuel Johnson's biography which claimed that he was as illegitimate child descended from a noble line forced into poverty and misery by a mother whose sole aim and purpose in life was his destruction, Savage was a friend of Johnson's but this biography is disbelieved by most scholars and now has been discredited.
Richard Savage wrote two poems; The Bastard (1728) and The Wanderer (1729), and two comedies.
In 1727 he killed a man in a tavern brawl and was sentenced to death but was later pardoned. He died in poverty.
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