The Works of Peter Pindar, Esq. With a Copious Index. To Which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life

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Octavo, Original emossed full leather bindings. Gilt rule on boards. General rubbing and mild wear on extremities. Hinges and joints still good. Some foxing and damping in parts of some volumes. Overall, a great set of Pindar's works. John Wolcot (9 May 1738 - 14 January 1819) was an English satirist, who wrote under the pseudonym of "Peter Pindar." Though trained as a physician and practing medicine, in 1780, Wolcot went to London and began writing satires. The first objects of his attentions were the members of the Royal Academy. These attempts being well received, he soon began to fly at higher game, the King and Queen being the most frequent marks for his satirical shafts. In 1786 he published The Lousiad, a Heroi-Comic Poem, which took its name from a legend that a louse had once appeared on the King's dinner plate. Other objects of his attack were Boswell, the biographer of Samuel Johnson, James Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller, Hannah More, former bluestocking and playwright, and Bishop Porteus. Wolcot had a remarkable vein of humour and wit, which, while intensely comic to persons not involved, stung its subjects to the quick. He had likewise strong intelligence, and a power of coining effective phrases. In other kinds of composition, as in some ballads which he wrote, an unexpected touch of gentleness and even tenderness appears. Among these are The Beggar Man and Lord Gregory. He died at his home in Latham Place (now part of Churchway), Somers Town, London, on 14 January 1819, and was buried in a vault in the churchyard of St Paul's, Covent Garden. N° de ref. del artículo 025508

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