Thomas James Mathias

Thomas James Mathias

Thomas James Mathias (1754? - 1835) was a British satirist.

Mathias was educated at the University of Cambridge, and held some minor appointments in the royal household. He was an accomplished Italian scholar, and translated various English works into Italian, such as "Canzoni e prose toscane", and vice versa. He also produced a fine edition of the work of Thomas Gray, on which he lost heavily. His chief work was "The Pursuits of Literature" (1794), an undiscriminating satire on his literary contemporaries that went through 16 editions, but is now almost forgotten.


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