Richard Blackmore
Richard Blackmore
Sir Richard Blackmore, English poet and physician, is remembered primarily as the object of satire and as an example of a dull poet. He was, however, a respected physician and religious writer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 January 1654
breeze dreamed english-poet flitting fluent home smoothly soft speed swift
The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.