Author:Joseph Spence

Joseph Spence
(1699–1768)

Joseph Spence

Works

• An Essay on Pope's Odyssey: in which some particular Beauties and Blemishes of that work are considered (1726) (external scan)
• Polymetis: or an Enquiry concerning the agreement between the Works of the Roman Poets and the Remains of the Antient Artists (1747)
• Crito, or, A dialogue on beauty (1752) under the pseudonym of 'Sir Harry Beaumont'. (external scan)
• Moralities (1753) under the pseudonym of 'Sir Harry Beaumont'.
• A Parallel; in the Manner of Plutarch Between a Most Celebrated Man of Florence; and One, Scarce Ever Heard Of, in England (1757) (external scan)
• Observations, anecdotes, and characters, of books and men (1820), with notes and a life by Samuel Weller Singer (external scan)

Contributions

• Poems by Mr. Thomas Blacklock. To which is prefix'd, An account of the life, character, and writings of the author, by the Reverend Mr. Spence. (1756) (external scan)
• 'An account of the author in a letter to a friend, written in the Year 1730' in Poems on Several Occasions (1738) by Stephen Duck (external scan)

As editor

• Remarks and Dissertations on Virgil, with some other Classical Observations, by the late Mr. Holdsworth. Published, with several Notes and additional Remarks, by Mr. Spence (1768) by Edward Holdsworth

Works about Spence

• "Spence, Joseph," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Spence, Joseph," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Spence, Joseph," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• Joseph Spence: a Critical Biography (1950) by Austin Wright