Background
Thomas Blount was born at Upper Holloway, Islington, London, United Kingdom on the 12th of September 1649; the eldest son of Sir Henry Blount and brother of Charles Blount.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
book
Sir Tho. Pope Blount's Essays on Several Subjects (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from Sir Tho. Pope Blount's Essays on Several Sub...)
Excerpt from Sir Tho. Pope Blount's Essays on Several Subjects About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0259183377/?tag=2022091-20
A Natural History
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B93JS6Y/?tag=2022091-20
De Re Poetica or Remarks Upon Poetry
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0032OL46A/?tag=2022091-20
Thomas Pope Blount
Edit ProfileCareer
Blount succeeded to the estate of Tittenhanger on his mother's death in 1678. He represented the borough of St Albans in the two last parliaments of Charles II and was knight of the shire from the revolution till his death. He died at Tittenhanger on the 30th of June 1697.
His Censura celebrorum authorum sive tractatus in quo varia virorum doctorum de clarissimis cujusque seculi scriptoribus judicia traduntur (1690) was originally compiled for Blount's own use, and is a dictionary in chronological order of what various eminent writers have said about one another. This necessarily involved enormous labour in Blount's time. It was published at Geneva in 1694 with all the quotations from modern languages translared into Latin, and again in 1710. His other works are A Natural History, containing many not common observations extracted out of the best modern writers (1693), De re poetica, or remarks upon Poetry, with Characters and Censures of the most considerable Poets (1694), and Essays on Several Occasions (1692). It is on this last work that his claims to be regarded as an original writer rest. The essays deal with the perversion of learning, a comparison between the ancients and the moderns (to the advantage of the latter), the education of children, and kindred topics. In the third edition (1697) he added an eighth essay, on religion, in which he deprecated the multiplication of ceremonies. He displays throughout a hatred of pedantry and convention, which makes his book still interesting.
Achievements
Works
book
-
A Natural History
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
-
Sir Tho. Pope Blount's Essays on Several Subjects (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from Sir Tho. Pope Blount's Essays on Several Sub...)
- De Re Poetica or Remarks Upon Poetry
-
A Natural History
Connections
He married Jane, daughter of Sir Henry Caesar, by whom he had five sons and nine daughters.
-
Born
-
Died
June 30, 1697 (aged 47) -
Nationality
British -
Ethnicity