Author:Leonard Welsted

Leonard Welsted
(1688–1747)

Works

• Apple-Pye: a poem (1704)
• A Poem occasioned by the late famous Victory of Oudenarde, inscribed to the Hon. Robert Harley (1709)
• A Poem to the memory of the incomparable Mr. Philips (1710)
• The Works of Dionysius Longinus on the Sublime … translated from the Greek; with some Remarks on the English Poets (1712)
• An Epistle to Mr. Steele, on the Accession of King George (1714)
• The Triumvirate, or a Letter in Verse from Palæmon to Celia from Bath (1717)
• An Epistle to the Duke of Chandos (1720)
• A Prologue to the Town, occasioned by the revival of a play of Shakspear (1721)
• An Epistle to Earl Cadogan (1722)
• Prologue and epilogue to Steele's ‘Conscious Lovers (1722)
• Oikographia, a Poem … to the Duke of Dorset (1725)
• An Ode to the Right Hon. Lieut.-General Wade, on his disarming the Highlands (1726)
• A Hymn to the Creator, written by a gentleman on the occasion of the death of his only daughter, 1726.
• The Dissembled Wanton; or, My Son, get Money: a comedy (1727)
• A Discourse to the Right Hon. Sir Robert Walpole, to which is annexed proposals for translating the whole Works of Horace (1727)
• One Epistle to Mr. Pope,’ in conjunction with Moore Smythe (1730)
• Of False Taste: an Epistle to the Earl of Pembroke (1732)
• Of Dulness and Scandal, occasioned by the character of Lord Timon in Mr. Pope's Epistle to the Earl of Burlington (1732)
• The Scheme and Conduct of Providence, from the Creation to the Coming of Messiah (1736)

Collected works

• Epistles, Odes, &c., written on several Subjects (1724)
• Welsted's works with a memoir and notes (1787), edited by John Nichols

Works about Welsted

• "Welsted, Leonard," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.