Sir Richard Blackmore (1654-1729) was an English poet and physician, whose works earned royal gratitude, and provoked artistic scorn and retorts from other writers such as Alexander Pope, Tom Brown, and John Dryden. He was educated at Westminster School very briefly, and he entered St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1669. He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1674 and his MA in 1676. He remained at Oxford as a tutor until 1682 but then left for a Europea...
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