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Restoration & Augustan

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

1751–1816

Richard Brinsley Sheridan was born in Dublin and became one of the leading English-language dramatists of his century, the author of The Rivals and The School for Scandal. He was also manager of the Drury Lane Theatre and a Whig Member of Parliament.

The song "Thou canst not boast" is included in W. B. Yeats's A Book of Irish Verse (1900).

Poems (7)

  1. Thou Canst Not Boast
  2. The Literary Lady
  3. The Swallows
  4. Let the Toast Pass
  5. Lord Erskine, on woman presuming to rail
  6. I ne'er could any lustre see
  7. "I would," says Fox, "a tax devise"

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