George Canning (1730-1771)

Life
1730-1771 [‘The Elder’]; disinherited by his father, he went to London in 1757; found work as actor; Horace’s First Satire, modernised (1762); Poems (London 1767); trans. the Anti-Lucretius of Cardinal de Polignac (1766);issued Poems (1967); m. 1768; d. 11 April the year after, reputedly of a broken heart in at death of his wife; bur. Marylebone. PI DIW OCIL

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Works
[Anon.], Horace's First Satire Modernized, and addressed to Jacob Henriques (London 1762), 4o.; A Translation of [the first five books] of Anti-Lucretius [by Cardinal Polignac] (London 1766). 4o.; Poems (London: for the Author 1767), iii, 91pp., 4o.

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