Pratt, Mr. (Samuel Jackson), 1749-1814
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Samuel Jackson Pratt abandoned his clerical career to become successively an actor, a bookseller, a dramatist, and finally a prolific poet and novelist whose best-known productions were the poem Sympathy and a translation of The Sorrows of Werther.
The collection also contains "The Linnets," a sentimental fable by Pratt, and a copy of a poem, "On Mrs. Provis leaving Bath the day after Keppel's Arrival."
From the description of Pratt papers, 1779. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702146930
Samuel Jackson Pratt abandoned his clerical career to become successively an actor, a bookseller, a dramatist, and finally a prolific poet and novelist whose best-known productions were the poem Sympathy and a translation of The Sorrows of Werther.
The collection also contains "The Linnets," a sentimental fable by Pratt, and a copy of a poem, "On Mrs. Provis leaving Bath the day after Keppel's Arrival."
From the description of Pratt papers, 1779. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81982892
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Subjects:
- English poetry
- Love-letters
- Sentimentalism in literature
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- Bath (England) (as recorded)
- Bath (England) (as recorded)
