Authority Cited: Fenton
Author name and dates: Elijah Fenton (1683-1730)
BKG Bio-tweet: Poet; Milton biographer, editor of poems; translator of several Odyssey chapters for Pope; corpulent; amiable
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary)
Author name and dates: Elijah Fenton (1683-1730)
BKG Bio-tweet: Poet; Milton biographer, editor of poems; translator of several Odyssey chapters for Pope; corpulent; amiable
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary)
- Fenton to Lord Gower; Ode to the Right Honorable John, Lord Gower, Written in the Spring, 1716 in Poems on Several Occasions, [dedicated to Charles, Earl of Orrery, by E. Fenton], London : printed for Bernard Lintot between the Temple-Gates, 1717; ambient (p.219); bowl; damask (p.219); day, to-day (p.222); flourish (p.219); forlorn (p.219); furry ("Felton to Lord Gower" in Dict.); mantle; moony (p,221); nectared (p.222); past (p.222); rebel (p.222); shadowy (p.219); shrill; sweep (p.222); volume (p.220); woodland;
- Translated in Poems on Several Occasions, [dedicated to Charles, Earl of Orrery, by E. Fenton], London : printed for Bernard Lintot between the Temple-Gates, 1717; purple (p.193); responsive (p.193); transfix (p.193);
- An Epistle to Thomas Lambard, Esq. in Poems on Several Occasions, [dedicated to Charles, Earl of Orrery, by E. Fenton], London : printed for Bernard Lintot between the Temple-Gates, 1717; insnare (p.206)
- The Two Friends, Imitated from Monſieur de la Fontaine in Oxford and Cambridge miscellany poems, 1708, London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys, between the Two Temple-Gates, in Fleet-Street; chopping (p.359) [BKG Note: the miscellany poems are thought to be published by Fenton. There is no author attribution for this poem: "a fair and chopping child" also appears in The Widow's Wile, a Tale, in Fenton's 1717 Poems on Several Occasions]
- On the first Fit of the Gout. in Oxford and Cambridge miscellany poems, 1708, London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys, between the Two Temple-Gates, in Fleet-Street; cot (p.374); gallipot (p.373); noddle (p.373); underprop (p.373); unsought (p.374); [BKG Note: there is no author attribution for this poem, it is attributed to "A person of Honor" in the 1706 separate publication by Fenton. First Fit of the Gout was published as Fenton's in the first collected edition of SJ's Lives, but not in the 2nd and 3rd. It is now thought to not be by Fenton. See Yale vol. 22, p.786.]
- Prologue to the Spartan Dame, by Thomas Southerne, written by Mr. Fenton and spoken by Mr. Cibber; in The works of Mr. Thomas Southerne. ... . Containing, The Loyal Brother: Or, The Persian Prince. The Disappointment: Or, The Mother in Fashion. Sir Anthony Love Or, The Rambling Lady. The Wives Excuse: Or, Cuckolds make Themselves, 1721, Volume 2, London : printed for J. Tonson, B. Tooke, M. Wellington, and W. Chetwood; eunuch (signature P5); gargle (signature P5); kickshaw (signature P5); jig, mummery, smockfaced (page before sig. P5)
- Fenton (no work cited);