Authority Cited: Hughes’s Spenc.; Hughes
Author name and dates: John Hughes (1677-1720)
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BKG Bio-tweet: Trans. of French drama, poetry, popular with aristocracy; Spenser editor, commentator; contrib. to Spectator
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Hughes cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, one Hughes cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Four Spectator cites are in numbers thought to be authored by Hughes. The citations of the Glossary that follow the Shepherd's Calendar were not found in the 1715 or 1750 Works editions except for hilding. See Spenser for cites of "Spenser," some of which are from earlier editions.]
The works of Spenser. In six volumes. With a glossary explaining the old and obscure words. To which is prefix'd the life of the author, and an essay on allegorical poetry, by Mr. Hughes, Volume the First, 1750, London: printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper; hilding (found in the Glossary, p.xciv in the 1750 edition, p.cxxvii in the 1715 edition)
Author name and dates: John Hughes (1677-1720)
Creative commons License, National Portrait Gallery
BKG Bio-tweet: Trans. of French drama, poetry, popular with aristocracy; Spenser editor, commentator; contrib. to Spectator
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Hughes cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, one Hughes cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Four Spectator cites are in numbers thought to be authored by Hughes. The citations of the Glossary that follow the Shepherd's Calendar were not found in the 1715 or 1750 Works editions except for hilding. See Spenser for cites of "Spenser," some of which are from earlier editions.]
The works of Spenser. In six volumes. With a glossary explaining the old and obscure words. To which is prefix'd the life of the author, and an essay on allegorical poetry, by Mr. Hughes, Volume the First, 1750, London: printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper; hilding (found in the Glossary, p.xciv in the 1750 edition, p.cxxvii in the 1715 edition)
- Horace, Book II, Ode XVI, To Grosphus in Poems on several occasions. With some select essays in prose. In two volumes. By John Hughes, Esq., Adorn'd with Sculptures, Volume the First, 1735, London: printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts; quiet (p.116) [BKG Note: SJ quotes the first lines of this paraphrase]
- The Spectator (edited by Addison and Steele) The following Spectator issues, thought to be authored by John Hughes, are cited in the 1755 Dict. #210: passed; #237: deal, marriageable (but included as Addison's in the 1721 Works); #537: productive.
- Hughes (no work cited); [BKG Note: see also Rowe, Duncomb]