Restoration & Augustan

John Langhorne

1735–1779


John Langhorne (1735–1779) was an English poet and clergyman, born in Westmorland and later rector of Blagdon in Somerset. With his brother William he translated Plutarch's Lives (1770).

His verse includes The Country Justice (1774–77) and Fables of Flora (1771), the latter a set of short poems on flowers.

  1. The Evening Primrose

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