Charles Churchill, a clergyman turned poet, took London by storm in the 1760s with verse satires on actors, politicians and the Scots. This edition collects The Apology, Night, The Prophecy of Famine, his epistle attacking Hogarth, The Duellist and more, with George Gilfillan’s memoir and notes.
The fiercest English satirist between Pope and Byron, still biting after two and a half centuries. Download the free EPUB.