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LANGHORNE, JOHN (17351779)

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 174 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KRO-LAP
LANGHORNE, JOHN (17351779) ,
English
  poet and translator of
Plutarch
 , was born at Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland. He at first supported himself as a private tutor and schoolmaster,
and, having taken orders, was appointed (1766) to the rectory of Blagdon, Somerset, where he died on the 1st of April 1779. His poems (
original
  and translations), and sentimental tales, are now forgotten, but his
translation
  of
Plutarch
 's Lives (1770), in which he had the co-operation of his elder brother William (17211772), is not yet superseded. It is far less vigorous than Sir
Thomas
  North's version (translated from
Amyot
 ) but is free from its inaccuracies. His poems were published in 1804 by his son, J. T. Langhorne, with a memoir of the author; they will also be found in R. Anderson's Poets of
Great
  Britain, xi. (1794) and A. Chalmers's
English
  Poets, xvi. (181o), with memoir. Of his poems, The Country
Justice
 , a plea for the neglected poor, and The Fables of Flora, were the most successful; of his
prose
  writings, The Correspondence between Theodosius and Constantia, founded on a well-known story in the Spectator (No. 164).


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