Author:Richard Savage

Richard Savage
(1697/1698–1743)

Works

Poetry

• The Convocation, or the Battle of Pamphlets (1717)
• A Poem on the Memory of George F (1727)
• The Bastard (1728)
• Nature in Perfection, or the Mother Unveiled (1728) [uncertain attribution]
• The Wanderer (1729)
• A Poem to the Memory of Mrs. Oldfield (1730) [uncertain attribution]
• Verses occasioned by Lady Tyrconnel's Recovery from the Smallpox at Bath (1730)
• On the Departure of the Prince and Princess of Orange (1734)
• A Poem on the Birthday of the Prince of Wales (1735)
• The Progress of a Divine (1735)
• The Poet's Dependence on a Statesman in the ‘Gentleman's Magazine’ (1736, p. 225)
• Of Public Spirit in regard to Public Works (1737)
• A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Her Majesty (1738)
• London and Bristol Delineated (1744)

Compilations

• Miscellaneous Poems and Translations by Several Hands (1726)
• Various poems. The wanderer, The triumph of mirth and health, and The bastard. To which is prefixed a preface giving some account of them (1761) [1]
• The works of Richard Savage, Esq., son of the Earl Rivers: with An account of the life and writings of the author (1777), in 2 vols. vol. 1 vol.2

Plays

• Love in a Veil: a comedy (1718)
• The Tragedy of Sir Thomas Overbury (1723) [2]

Works about Savage

• The Life of Mr. Richard Savage, who was condemn'd wih Mr. James Gregory, the last sessions at Old Baily, for the murder of Mr. James Sinclair, at Robinson's coffee-house at Charing-Cross (1727), by Charles Beckingham (attribution uncertain)
• An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers (1744), by Samuel Johnson
• "Richard Savage," in The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1783), by Samuel Johnson, Volume 3, pp. 164–335
• "Savage, Richard (d.1743)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Savage, Richard," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)