Tobias George Smollett
1721 - 1771
Tobias George Smollett was a Scottish writer and surgeon. He was best known for writing picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), which influenced later generations of British novelists, including Charles Dickens. His novels were liberally altered by contemporary printers; an authoritative edition of each was edited by Dr O. M. Brack Jr and others.Poems
- A HYMN TO CONTENTMENT.
- THE HERMIT.
- I.— ON THE SPRING.
- II.— ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A CHINA TUB OF GOLD FISHES.
- III — ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE.
- IV.— HYMN TO ADVERSITY.
- V.— THE PROGRESS OF POESY.
- VII.— THE FATAL SISTERS.
- VIII.— THE DESCENT OF ODIN.
- IX.— THE DEATH OF HOEL.
- X.— THE TRIUMPH OF OWEN:
- XI.— FOR MUSIC.