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Title: The Methodist
A Poem

Author: Evan Lloyd

Release Date: January 11, 2009 [eBook #27776]

Language: English

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EVAN LLOYD

THE METHODIST.

A Poem.

(1766)

Introduction by Raymond Bentman

Publication Number 151-152
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
University Of California, Los Angeles
1972

GENERAL EDITORS

William E. Conway, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
George Robert Guffey, University of California, Los Angeles
Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles
David S. Rodes, University of California, Los Angeles

ADVISORY EDITORS

Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan
James L. Clifford, Columbia University
Ralph Cohen, University of Virginia
Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles
Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago
Louis A. Landa, Princeton University
Earl Miner, University of California, Los Angeles
Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota
Everett T. Moore, University of California, Los Angeles
Lawrence Clark Powell, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
James Sutherland, University College, London
H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles
Robert Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Curt A. Zimansky, State University of Iowa

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

Edna C. Davis, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Jean T. Shebanek, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

INTRODUCTION

Evan Lloyd's works consist chiefly of four satires written in 1766
and 1767,[1] all of which are now little-known. What little notice he
receives today results from his friendship with John Wilkes and David
Garrick and from one satire, _The Methodist_, which is usually included
in surveys of anti-Methodist literature.[2] For the most part, his
obscurity is