Authority Cited: Stepney
Author name and dates: George Stepney (1663-1707)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cambridge Fellow; more successful diplomat than poet; many languages; SJ: licentious translator; SJ quotes trans. poetry
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: six Stepney cites were identified in 1755 Dict, vol.1, and eight cites in 1755 Dict. vol.2. No additional Stepney cites were identified in the 1773 Dict.]
Author name and dates: George Stepney (1663-1707)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cambridge Fellow; more successful diplomat than poet; many languages; SJ: licentious translator; SJ quotes trans. poetry
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: six Stepney cites were identified in 1755 Dict, vol.1, and eight cites in 1755 Dict. vol.2. No additional Stepney cites were identified in the 1773 Dict.]
- The works of the most celebrated minor poets. Namely, Wentworth, Earl of Roscommon; Charles, Earl of Dorset; Charles, Earl of Halifax; Sir Samuel Garth; George Stepney, Esq; William Walsh, Esq; Thomas Tickell, Esq. Never before collected and publish'd together. In two volumes. 1749, London: Printed for F. Cogan.... [BKG Note: per Reddick, in The making of Johnson's Dictionary (204), the copy marked by SJ was in the Hyde Collection, presumably now at Harvard. J.D. Fleeman, in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, 1975, U. of Victoria, indicates that this copy (item II-13) may be only V.1, and only annotated by SJ for Garth, and not the other poets. The first two poems below are not in the 1749 London Works. All the Stepney poems listed below as quoted in the 1755 Dict. are in The minor poets: or, the works of the most celebrated authors, of whose writings there are but small remains, viz. the Earl of Roscommon, the Earl of Dorset, the Earl of Hallifax, Sir Samuel Garth, George Stepney, Esq; William Walsh, Esq; Thomas Tickell, Esq; Thomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester. In two volumes. 1751, Dublin : printed for P. Wilson, J. Exshaw, J. Esdall, R. James, S. Price, and M. Williamson. I conclude SJ likely used the Dublin 1751 publication.]
- A poem dedicated to the blessed memory of her late gracious Majesty Queen Mary by Mr. Stepney. [poem not in the 1749 London Works, but in The minor poets: or, the works of the most celebrated authors, of whose writings there are but small remains, viz. the Earl of Roscommon, the Earl of Dorset, the Earl of Hallifax, Sir Samuel Garth, George Stepney, Esq; William Walsh, Esq; Thomas Tickell, Esq; Thomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester. In two volumes. 1751, Dublin : printed for P. Wilson, J. Exshaw, J. Esdall, R. James, S. Price, and M. Williamson]; spindle;
- An Epistle to Charles Montague, Esq. [poem not the 1749 London Works,, but in The minor poets: or, the works of the most celebrated authors, of whose writings there are but small remains, viz. the Earl of Roscommon, the Earl of Dorset, the Earl of Hallifax, Sir Samuel Garth, George Stepney, Esq; William Walsh, Esq; Thomas Tickell, Esq; Thomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester. In two volumes. 1751, Dublin : printed for P. Wilson, J. Exshaw, J. Esdall, R. James, S. Price, and M. Williamson; eagerly; imperfectly; relieves
- On the late horrid Conspiracy; appeal; globe;
- On the University of Cambridge's burning the Duke of Monmouth 's Picture, 1685. who was formerly their Chancellor.---In Answer to this Question; minuet; phiz;
- Horace, Book III, ODE VII, Imitated; jade; yokefellow/yokemate
- Horace, Book IV, ODE IX; barbarously; meekly;
- To the Earl of Carlisle , upon the Death of his Son before Luxemburgh; midwifery; nip;
- Stepney (no work cited);