Richard Mant (12 February 1776 – 2 November 1848)[1] was an English churchman who became a bishop in Ireland. He was a prolific writer, his major work being a History of the Church of Ireland.[2]
Richard Mant died in Ballymoney, Ireland on 2 November 1848.[1]
Works
In 1808 Mant published The Simpliciad, a satirical poem that parodied Poems, in Two Volumes (1807) by William Wordsworth. He gave notes relating his parodies to the originals.[3] The aim of the work included the other Lake Poets, Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with To a Young Ass by Coleridge used to tease the group as a whole.[4] In 1832, Mant published The Gospel of Miracles, in a Series of Poetical Sketches, with Illustrative Conversations, an attempt to represent the miracles of the Saviour in verse.[5]
Mant's Ancient Hymns from the Roman Breviary[6] (1837) was one of the earliest collections of translated Latin hymnody in English. He belonged to a group of revivalist translators of Latin hymns, with John Chandler (1806–1876) and Isaac Williams. John Ellerton commented on his good taste, but also discerned a lack of understanding of the group of hymns he was handling.[7] The Psalms in an English Metrical Version[8] (1824) were influenced by Robert Lowth's theories of biblical poetry, the psalms becoming "stiff and stately odes" according to John Julian.[9]
Mant married Elizabeth Wood (died 2 April 1846), of a Sussex family, on 22 December 1804. Their children were Walter Bishop Mant, another son, and a daughter.[2]
References
The Simpliciad: 1808 (Revolution and Romanticism, 1789–1834) Publisher: Woodstock Books Inc. ISBN1-85477-076-4
Notes
^ abc"Richard Mant". The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology. Canterbury Press.
^Candles, Isaac (1834). "Review of Montgomery's Messiah, and Mant's Gospel of Miracles". The Literary and Theological Review. 1 (4): 648–68 – via American Periodicals Series.