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Charles Gildon
British writer · Writers · Lived 1665 to 1724 · aged 59
Charles Gildon, was an English hack writer and translator. He produced biographies, essays, plays, poetry, fictional letters, fables, short stories, and criticism. He is remembered best as a target of Alexander Pope in Pope's Dunciad and his Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot and as an enemy of Jonathan Swift.
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Due to Pope's caricature of Gildon as well as the volume and rapidity of his writings, Gildon has become the epitome of the hired pen and literary opportunist.
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1665 to 1724 · aged 59
