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Pordage, Samuel, 1633-1691

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Samuel Pordage (1633 - 1691?) was a seventeenth century English poet.

Samuel was the son of the leader of the Philadelphians, John Pordage, a clergyman from Bradfield in Berkshire. He was educated at Merchant Taylor's School, studied law at Lincoln's Inn, and made various translations, wrote some poems, two tragedies, Herod and Mariamne (1673), and The Siege of Babylon (1678), and a romance, Eliana (novel). He is best known by his Azaria and Hushai (1682), in reply to Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, distinguished from the other replies by its moderation and freedom from scurrility.

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Works by Samuel Pordage at Project Gutenberg

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.

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