The Wanderer
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- In Richard Savage
His most considerable poem, The Wanderer, a discursive work revealing the influence of James Thomson’s The Seasons, appeared in 1729, as did his prose satire on Grub Street, An Author to be Let. In 1737–38 he met Samuel Johnson, then newly arrived in London, and to Johnson’s perceptive and…
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