Author: WOODHOUSE (James):
Title: Poems on Several Occasions. By James Woodhouse, Journeyman shoemaker. The Second Edition. Corrected, With several additional pieces never before published. T0 which is prefixed, A List of hs Generous Benefactor on the former Publication, And teh Subscribers to the present edition.
Description: London: Printed for the Author,and sold by Messrs. Dodsley..., 1766. 8vo (in 4s), 212 x 132 mms. pp. [v] vi - xv [xvi blank, xvii - xxii list of subscribers], 181 [182 blank], contemporary lightly speckled sheepskin, red leather label; front joint very slightly cracked, with the contemporary autograph "Wm Rose" on the titlle-page, who is probably the ubiquitous author of many reviews, particularly in The Monthly Review. The poet James Woodhouse (bap. 1735, d. 1820) began his working life as a cordwainer or shoemaker, but his poetical work came to the attention of Shenstone, who along with Lord Lyttelton and Edward Montagu and James and Robert Dodsley supported him. After the first edition of his poems was published in 1764, he came to the attention of Samuel Johnson and the Thrales, He dined with the Thrales when Johnson was present, and that meeting apparently called forth Johnson's famous injunction, "Give nights and days, Sir ... to the study of Addison, if you mean either to be a good writer, or what is more worth, an honest man." He eventually supported himself as a bookseller.

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