Author:Laurence Eusden

Laurence Eusden
(1688–1730)

Laurence Eusden

Works

• In Poetical Miscellanies (1714): (external scan)
  • “The Court of Venus” (p. 97)
  • “The Speech of Pluto to Proserpine” (p. 138)
  • “To the Right Honourable Charles, Lord Hallifax” (p. 190)
  • “On Reading the Critique on Milton in the Spectator” (p. 196)
  • “On a Lady who is the most Beautiful and Witty when she is Angry” (p. 214)
  • “To Mr. —” (p. 216)
  • “On a Dispute with a Gentleman” (p. 218)
  • “From the Fourth Book of Statius’s Thebaid (from verse 246)” (p. 220)
  • “From the Fourth Book of Statius’s Thebaid (from verse 309)” (p. 226)
  • “To the Author of the Tatlers” (p. 251)
  • “To a Lady, that wept at the hearing Cato read” (p. 255)
• Verses at the Last Publick Commencement at Cambridge (1714) (external scan)
• A Poem Humbly Inscribed to His Royal Highness Prince Frederic (1729) (external scan)

As translator

• Hero and Leander (1750) (transcription project)
• Metamorphoses, Book IV., translated from Ovid (1727)

As contributor

Eusden wrote many papers in the Spectator, Tatler, and Guardian (see A General Index to the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians (1757) (external scan)).

• The Guardian (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2) (Nos. 124 (likely), 127 (in part), 164, &c.)

Works about Eusden

• “The Life of Lawrence Eusden,” in A Biographical Sketch of the Authors of the Spectator, by Robert Bisset (1793) (external scan)
• “Reverend Laurence Eusden,” in The Lives of the Poets-Laureate, by W. S. Austin and J. Ralph (1853)
• "Eusden, Laurence," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols..
• "Eusden, Laurence," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• Consult “Rev. Laurence Eusden,” in English Poetry, 1579–1830 (here)