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Brown, John (English poet)

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Brown, John (1715-1766)

English poet and dramatist. He defended utilitarianism as a philosophy in his ‘Essay on the Characteristics of Shaftesbury’ (1751). His Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times (1757), a vehement satire on luxury, was exceedingly popular, and his Barbarossa (1754) was played with success by David Garrick.

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