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Dodsley, Robert - 1703–64, English publisher and author. He wrote occasional verses, and also several plays, including The King and the Miller of Mansfield (1737); a ballad opera, The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (1741); and the tragedy Cleone (1758). He is best known, however, as the publisher of works by Pope, Johnson, Gray, and Goldsmith and as the editor of A Select Collection of Old


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    The Rise of Robert Dodsley: Creating the New Age of Print » Read Now

    by Harry M. Solomon. 342 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Robert Dodsley (1703-1764) started life humbly for a man destined to become his century's premier bookseller and publisher. He began as an apprentice weaver and developed into a poet and playwright. Virtually all significant mid-century English writers had some connection with Dodsley or with...
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    A Collection of English Poems, 1660-1800 ("Song" by Robert Dodsley begins on p. 665) » Read Now

    by Ronald S. Crane. 1176 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Song. Written in the Year 1732 664 Written at Mr. Popes House at Twickenham 664 ROBERT DODSLEY 1703-1729-1764 665 Song: Mans a poor deluded bubble 665 The Kings of Europe...
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    English Literature from Dryden to Burns ("Robert Dodsley (1703-1764)" begins on p. 231) » Read Now

    by Alan Dugald McKillop. 454 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...William Shenstone 229 Robert Dodsley 231 Newspapers...Literature 387 Robert Burns 389 Minor...great divines like Isaac Barrow, Robert South, and Richard Baxter. Sermons...

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