ABSTRACT

On Hurd (1720-1808) see the headnote to No. 120 in Vol. 3. The first piece furthers the work of identifying Shakespeare’s characteristic linguistic practices that had been begun by Theobald and Upton. The second is a development, with examples, and written at the request of his Cambridge friend, William Mason, of Hurd’s theories of imitation, first outlined in a dissertation appended to his translation of Horace in 1751 (No. 128 in Vol. 3).