SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE BIOGRAPHY
SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
BLACKMORE, SIR RICHARD ( c. 1650, d. 1729). —Poet, one of the Court Physicians to William III. and Anne, wrote several very long and well-intentioned, but dull and tedious, poems, which, though praised by Addison and Johnson, are now utterly forgotten. They include Prince Arthur , Creation , Redemption , Alfred . As may be imagined, they were the subject of derision by the profaner wits of the day. B. was a successful physician and an excellent man.