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Restoration & Augustan

Thomas Sheridan

1687–1738

Thomas Sheridan (1687–1738) was an Irish clergyman and schoolmaster in Dublin, a close friend of Jonathan Swift and the grandfather of the dramatist Richard Brinsley Sheridan. He was known for his wit and for the verse exchanges he kept up with Swift.

The pieces here are those that James Parton assigned to him in his anthology of English humorous poetry.

Poems (4)

  1. A New Simile for the Ladies
  2. On a Caricature
  3. On Dean Swift's Proposed Hospital for Lunatics
  4. To a Dublin Publisher

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