John Scott Hylton
John Scott Hylton (c. 1726 – 23 February 1793)[1] was an English antiquary and poet, and a member of the Shenstone circle of writers that gathered around the poet and landscape gardener William Shenstone.
Background[edit]
Little is known of Hylton's early life, but later correspondence with Lady Luxborough speaks of his "shattered fortune" and mentions his "loss of a place at court".[2]
From 1753 he was a resident of Lepall House in Halesowen, where he was a neighbour of William Shenstone, through whom he became a friend of many other members of Shenstone's literary circle, including Lady Luxborough, John Pixell, Richard Graves, Richard Jago and Thomas Percy.[3] His most famous poem was "Verses, written at the Gardens of William Shenstone, Esq., near Birmingham, 1756", which was printed in the London Magazine of September 1758.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ England, Extracted Parish and Court Records, 1399-1795
- ^ Tierney, James E., ed. (2004), The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley: 1733-1764, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 238, ISBN 0521522080, retrieved 24 October 2012
- ^ a b Suarez, Michael F. (2007), "Who's Who in Robert Dodsley's Collection of Poems by Several Hands", in Dodsley, Robert (ed.), Collection of Poems by Several Hands, London: Routledge, p. 171, ISBN 9780415143820, retrieved 24 October 2012
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