Author:Richard Blackmore

Richard Blackmore
(1654–1729)

Richard Blackmore

Works

Epic poetry

Historical

• Prince Arthur (1695) (external scan)
• King Arthur (1697) (external scan)
• Eliza (1705) (external scan)
• Alfred (1723) (external scan)

Religious

• The Nature of Man (1711) (external scan)
• Creation (1712) (external scan)
• Redemption (1722) (external scan)

Matters of physick

• The report of the physicians and surgeons, commanded to assist at the dissecting the body of His late Majesty at Kensington, March the tenth MDCCI/II (1702). Co-authored with Thomas Millington and Edward Hannes (external scan)
• A Discourse upon the Plague (1721) (external scan)
• A Treatise upon the Small-Pox (1723)
• A Treatise of Consumptions (1724) (external scan)
• A Critical Dissertation on the Spleen (1725) (external scan)
• A Treatise of the Spleen and Vapours (1725) (external scan)
• Discourses on the Gout, a Rheumatism, and the King’s Evil (1726) (external scan)
• Dissertations on a Dropsy, a Tympany, the Jaundice, the Stone, and a Diabetes (1727) (external scan)

Other works

• A Short History of the Last Parliament (1699) (external scan)
• Paraphrase on the Book of Job (1700)
• Satire on Wit (1700)
• Advice to the Poets (1706) (full text)
• Kit-cats (1708) (external scan)
• Instructions to Vander Bank (1709) (external scan)
• Advice to a Weaver of Tapestry
• An Essay on the Nature and Constitution of Epick Poetry (1716) (full text)
• Essays upon Several Subjects (1716) (external scan)
• A Sequel to the Spectators
• A New Version of the Psalms of David (1721)
• Just Prejudices against the Arian Hypothesis (1721) (external scan)
• Modern Arians unmasked (1721) (external scan)
• A true and impartial History of the Conspiracy against King William of glorious Memory, in the Year 1695 (1723) (external scan)
• A Compleat Key to the Dunciad (1728) (external scan)
• Natural Theology (1728)
• Numerous contributions to the Spectator and the Lay Monastery

Works about Blackmore

• "Richard Blackmore" in The lives of the most eminent English poets: with critical observations on their works (1783), by Samuel Johnson, Volume 3, pp.62-92.
• "Blackmore, Sir Richard," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Blackmore, Sir Richard," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Blackmore, Sir Richard," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Blackmore, Sir Richard," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Blackmore, Richard," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• The Life of Blackmore, from The Poetical Works of Sir R. Blackmore (1797) (external scan)