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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Sir Richard Blackmore (1654–1729)

Blackmore, Sir Richard. An English physician and poet; born in Wiltshire in 1654; died in 1729. Besides medical works, Scripture paraphrases, and satirical verse, he wrote in couplets ‘Prince Arthur, a Heroic Poem’ (1695), and a voluminous religious epic, ‘The Creation’ (1712), very successful and much praised then, but not now read.