page_title: John Hughes (poet)
hierarchical_section_title: John Hughes (poet)
caption_attribution_description: English: A steel engraving from Godfrey Kneller’s 1718 portrait of the poet John Hughes (1677-1729) by Gerard Vandergucht. It was first used in his Poems on Several Occasion (1735) and later for a 1754 issue of The Universal Magazine.
context_page_description: John Hughes was an English poet, essayist and translator. Various of his works remained in print for a century after his death, but if he is remembered at all today it is for the use others made of his work. Texts of his were set by the foremost composers of the day and his translation of the Letters of Abelard and Heloise was a major source for Alexander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard.
context_section_description: John Hughes (29 January 1677 – 17 February 1720) was an English poet, essayist and translator. Various of his works remained in print for a century after his death, but if he is remembered at all today it is for the use others made of his work. Texts of his were set by the foremost composers of the day and his translation of the Letters of Abelard and Heloise was a major source for Alexander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard.
caption: An engraving after Godfrey Kneller's portrait of the poet
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