Authority Cited: Dennis
Author name and dates: John Dennis (1657-1734)
BKG Bio-tweet: Tragedy author; important critical works on poetry and Shakespeare; literary warfare with Pope
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 27 Dennis cites in vol. 1 of the 1755 Dict. and about 15 in vol.2. Headwords below in brackets are cited only as "Dennis." One added citation in the 1773 Dict. was identified, noted in bold italics below.]
Author name and dates: John Dennis (1657-1734)
BKG Bio-tweet: Tragedy author; important critical works on poetry and Shakespeare; literary warfare with Pope
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 27 Dennis cites in vol. 1 of the 1755 Dict. and about 15 in vol.2. Headwords below in brackets are cited only as "Dennis." One added citation in the 1773 Dict. was identified, noted in bold italics below.]
- Letters: Original letters, familiar, moral and critical. By Mr. Dennis. In two volumes. 1721, London: printed for W. Mears at the Lamb without Temple-Bar; alienable; avoidless; [basset]; [bawdy-house]; [belch]; bolting-house; bowl; [carrot]; [catastrophe]; [circular]; [cog]; [company]; [conserve]; [couch]; [coxcomical]; [damnably (same quote as conserve)]; [equivocal]; [executer (executor in text)]; [flip]; [for]; gambade/gambado; [idiot (ideot in text)]; [imagination]; [infinite]; [joker]; [judgment]; kinswoman; latinity; leash; [mohock]; [preferably]; [rat]; [rhymer]; relation; salutiferous; [stamp]; [stand]; [swabber]; [tarpawling (same quote as swabber)]; [trot]; unbacked;
- [Poem to Dryden on trans. of Virgil’s Georgics]: The select works of Mr. John Dennis. In two volumes. 1718 (also 1721), printed by John Darby in Bartholomew-Close; [lay ("melodious lays" in 1718 text rather than "immortal lays" in 1755 Dict.; perhaps from memory];
- Dennis (no work cited); [sentiment (added in 1773 Dict., exact quote not found in the titles above, perhaps from memory)];