The Steeleids, or, the tryal of wit. A poem in three cantos

Item author: John Lacy
Item date: 1714
Grant Value: 317
Item cost: 317
Item date acquired: 1987
Item institution: Leeds University, Brotherton Library
Town/City: Leeds
County: West Yorkshire

A satire on Sir Richard Steele and other Whig writers. John Lacy is a pseudonym, true authorship remains a mystery. The poem contains slighting remarks about the height of Alexander Pope and is therefore listed in Guerinots Pamphlet attacks on Alexander Pope - the fourth earliest such recorded. Purchased by the Brotherton Library, Leeds University.