SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE
\sˌɜː ɹˈɪt͡ʃəd blˈakmɔː], \sˌɜː ɹˈɪtʃəd blˈakmɔː], \s_ˌɜː ɹ_ˈɪ_tʃ_ə_d b_l_ˈa_k_m_ɔː]\
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An English physician and poet; born in Wiltshire about 1650; died 1729. Besides medical works, Scripture paraphrases, and satirical verse, he wrote in Popian couplets "Prince Arthur, a Heroic Poem" (1695), and a voluminous religious epic, "The Creation" (1712), very successful and much praised then, but not now read.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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