| LYTTELTON, GEORGE, first BARON LYTTELTON: Observations on .the Conversion and Apostleship of St. Paul (London, 1747; new ed., 1879), which Dr. Johnson characterized as "a treatise to which infidelity has never bin able to fabricate a special answer"; Dialogues of the Dead (1760; 4th ed., enlarged, 1765; new ed., 1889); and The History of the Life of Henry II. (4 vols., .1767; 3d ed., 6 vols., 1769-73), a work of much careful research, which has, however, been superseded. His verse, which is inferior to his prose, was chiefly included in Poems (Glasgow, 1773), and in his Poetical Works (London, 1785). His nephew, G. E. Ayscough, collected his Works (London, 1774; 3d. ed., 3 vols., 1776), including both verse and prose. Sir Robert Phillimore edited his Memoirs and Correspondence (2 vols., 1845). BIBLIOGRAPHY: An excellent list of authorities is given at the end of the sketch in DNB xxxiv. 369-374, and a Life is found in A. Chalmers, Works of the English Poets , vol. xiv., London, 1810. Consult also: E. S. Creasy, Memoirs of Celebrated Etonians | |
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