Moses Browne

ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION Rev. Moses Browne(1704-1787)WORKS PROFILE COMMENTARY BIOGRAPHIES REFERENCE AUTHOR AS CRITIC navigate Moses Browne, born in Severn Stoke, Worcester, published his early poetry under the patronage of Viscount Molesworth; after the death of his patron he struggled to support a growing family as a pen-cutter. Edward Cave published a number of Browne's poems in the Gentleman's Magazine (1733-50) where they sometimes appeared under the pseudonym "Astrophil." Later in life Browne found belated success as a devotional writer; Lord Dartmouth and the countess of Hertford were among his patrons. At the instigation of the evangelical writer James Hervey Browne was ordained in 1753; he was vicar of Olney, and later chaplain of Morden College and Vicar of Sutton in Lincolnshire.

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1721The Throne of Justice; a Pindaric Ode. 1729Essay in Defense of Piscatory Eclogue, in Piscatory Eclogues. 1729Piscatory Eclogues: I. The Weather. 1729Piscatory Eclogues: II. The Nocturnal. 1729Piscatory Eclogues: III. The River Enemies. 1729Piscatory Eclogues: IV. The Sea Swains. 1729Piscatory Eclogues: IX. The Complaints, or, The Friends. 1729Piscatory Eclogues: V. Renock's Despair. 1729Piscatory Eclogues: VI. The Songs. 1729Piscatory Eclogues: VII. The Strife. 1729Piscatory Eclogues: VIII. The Fowlers. 1734Tavy's Speech. 1735Teague's Orashion. 1739The Fate of the Muse. To Richard Savage, Esq; Son to the late Earl Rivers. 1740In Praise of Chaucer, Father of English Poetry. 1749Percy-Lodge, a Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Somerset, a Poem. 1783Preface to the new Edition of the Purple Island. PUBLICATIONS:

The throne of justice: a Pindaric ode. 1721. The Richmond beauties. 1722. Polidus or distress'd love: a tragedy, with a farce call'd All bedevil'd or the house in a hurry. 1723. Verses to the right honourable the Earl of Scarborough. Upon the death of the late glorious king. 1727. Piscatory eclogues: an essay to introduce new rules and new characters into pastoral. 1729. Poems on various subjects. 1739. Sunday thoughts. 1749, 1750. The compleat angler [Walton and Cotton, ed. Browne]. 1750. The works and rest of the creation. 1752. The nativity and humiliation of Jesus Christ practically consider'd. A sermon. 1754. Percy-lodge: a poem. 1755. The Christian's glorious Coronation-day. A sermon. 1761. The causes that obstruct the progress of reformation. A sermon. 1765. The excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ. 1772.