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Birth date
1697
Death date
1743
Country
England
Poems by this Poet
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To Mr. John Dyer, a Painter
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Epistle to Mr. John Dyer, An
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Verses to Aaron Hill, Esq.
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To John Powell, Esq.
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Gentleman, The. Addressed to John Joliffe, Esq.
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The Employment of Beauty
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On False Historians
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On the Recovery of a Lady of Quality
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Verses Occasioned by the Right Hon. the Lady Viscountess Tyrconnel's Recovery at Bath
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Apology to Brillante, For Having Long Omitted Writing in Verse, An
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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.