John Scott Hylton

John Scott Hylton (c. 1726 – 1793) was an English antiquary and poet, and a member of the Shenstone circle of writers that gathered around the poet and landscape gardener William Shenstone.

Background

Little is known of Hylton's early life, but later correspondence with Lady Luxborough speaks of his "shattered fortune" and mentions his "loss of a place at court".[1]

From 1753 he was a resident of Lepall House in Halesowen, where he was a neighbour of William Shenstone, through whom he became a friend of many other members of Shenstone's literary circle, including Lady Luxborough, John Pixell, Richard Graves, Richard Jago and Thomas Percy.[2] His most famous poem was "Verses, written at the Gardens of William Shenstone, Esq., near Birmingham, 1756", which was printed in the London Magazine of September 1758.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Tierney, James E., ed. (2004), The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley: 1733-1764, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 238, ISBN 0521522080, retrieved 2012-10-24
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Suarez, Michael F. (2007), "Who's Who in Robert Dodsley's Collection of Poems by Several Hands", in Dodsley, Robert, Collection of Poems by Several Hands, London: Routledge, p. 171, retrieved 2012-10-24