Restoration & Augustan

Isaac Hawkins Browne

1705–1760


Isaac Hawkins Browne was an English poet and member of parliament, born at Burton-on-Trent in 1705. He is best remembered for the Pipe of Tobacco (1736), a set of imitations of Thomson, Pope, Swift and other poets, in which he praised tobacco in their manner.

Gilfillan prints three of the imitations, of Thomson, Pope and Swift.

  1. Imitation of Thomson
  2. Imitation of Pope
  3. Imitation of Young
  4. The Fire-Side: A Pastoral Soliloquy

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