Author:Soame Jenyns

Soame Jenyns
(1704–1787)

Soame Jenyns

Works

• A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil: In Six Letters to ____ (1756) (external scan)
• Miscellaneous pieces, in verse and prose (1770) (external scan)
• View of the internal Evidence of the Christian Religion (1776) (external scan)
• Disquisitions on several Subjects (1782) (external scan)
• Thoughts on a Parliamentary Reform (1784) (external scan)

Poetry

• The Art of Dancing: a Poem in three cantos (1727), (anon.) (external scan)
• An Epistle to Lord Lovelace (1735)
• Poems (1752)

chiefly reprinted from ‘Dodsley's Miscellany.’

• An Ode (1770) (external scan)

Works about Jenyns

• "Jenyns, Soame," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Jenyns, Soame," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Works about his works

• “Art. VI. Disquisitions on several Subjects: 1782; 12mo—pp. 182 [By Soame Jenyns]”, Retrospective Review (London) ii: 291-304, 1820  (external scan)
• From a Review of "A Free Inquiry Into the Nature and Origin of Evil", in "Samuel Johnson" (1911), by Alice Meynell and G. K. Chesterton

- This is an extract from a scathing review by Samuel Johnson in ‘Literary Magazine.’