Restoration & Augustan
Robert Lloyd
Robert Lloyd was a London poet, the son of a master at Westminster School and a friend of Charles Churchill and George Colman. He died in 1764.
Gilfillan prints one of his satires on the poet's hard life.
Poems (26)
- The Miseries of a Poet's Life
- The Author's Apology
- Part of Homer's Hymn to Apollo
- To ****: About to Publish a Volume of Miscellanies
- Epistle to J. B., Esq. (1757)
- The Hare and Tortoise: A Fable
- The Satyr and Pedlar
- The Cit's Country Box
- From Catullus
- Shakespeare: An Epistle to Mr. Garrick
- Epistle to J—B—, Esq. (1757)
- Ode Spoken on a Public Occasion at Westminster-School
- To George Colman, Esq.: A Familiar Epistle
- Prologue to The Jealous Wife
- The Nightingale, the Owl, and the Cuckow: A Fable
- Ode I (from Two Odes)
- Ode to Oblivion
- The Law-Student: To George Colman, Esq.
- The First Book of the Henriade
- Familiar Epistle to ——, Apothecary
- A Tale
- An Epistle to C. Churchill, Author of the Rosciad
- Prologue, Intended to Have Been Spoken at Drury-Lane Theatre
- Genius, Envy, and Time: A Fable
- The Progress of Envy
- The New-River Head: A Tale