Richard Savage : Read Poems by Poet Richard Savage

Birth date

1697

Death date

1743

Country

England

Poems by this Poet

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Title	Post date	Rating
To the Excellent Miranda, Consort of Aaron Hill, Esq.	19 May, 2014	Average: 3 (1 vote)
To the Right Hon. Bessy Countess of Rochford	19 May, 2014	Average: 3 (1 vote)
To Miss M — H —	19 May, 2014	Average: 3 (1 vote)
Sent to Mrs. Bridget Jones, With the Wanderer, a Poem	19 May, 2014	Average: 3 (1 vote)
The Poet's Dependence on a Statesman	19 May, 2014	Average: 3 (1 vote)
The Genius of Liberty	19 May, 2014	Average: 3 (1 vote)
London and Bristol. Delineated	19 May, 2014	Average: 3 (1 vote)
Verses Occasioned by Reading Mr. Aaron Hill's Poem Called Gideon	19 May, 2014	Average: 4 (1 vote)
Fulvia	19 May, 2014	Average: 3 (1 vote)
Character of the Rev. James Foster	19 May, 2014	No votes yet

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.