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Pindar 1782
Author
Peter Pindar (1738-1819)
Title/Description
Lyric Odes to the Royal Academicians for MDCCLXXXII, by Peter Pindar, Esq., a distant relation of the Poet of Thebes, and Laureate to the Academy
Publisher
Country
London, UK
Date of Publication
1782
Printed/Manuscript
Primary published
Source Institution
Printed and sold by T. Egerton, Baldwin and Debrett
Document Inventory/Accession No
1st edition
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Peter Pindar, whose real name was John Wolcot, trained as a physician and clergyman before moving to London in 1780 and making his name as author and satirist. Among his first targets were members of the Royal Academy and in his
Lyric Odes
he referred to Wilson's tragic decline in his later years but foresaw correctly that his works would be back in fashion a hundred years after his death.
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'But, honest Wilson, never mind; Immortal praises thou shalt find; And for a dinner have no cause to fear; Thou start'st at my prophetic Rhymes; Don't be impatient for those times; Wait till thou hast been dead a hundred year'
Lyric Odes
, p. 27, Ode VI, last verse
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08/05/2019
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