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dialogues of the dead
george lord lyttelton was born in 1709 at hagley in worcestershire . he was educated at eton and at christchurch oxford entered parliament became a lord of the treasury and chancellor of the exchequer . in 1757 he withdrew from politics was raised to the peerage and spent the last eighteen years of his life in lettered ease . in 1760 lord lyttelton first published these dialogues of the dead which were revised for a fourth edition in 1765 and in 1767 he published in four volumes a history of the life of king henry the second and of the age in which he lived a work upon which he had been busy for thirty years . he began it not long after he had published at the age of twentysix his letters from a persian in england to his friend at ispahan . if we go farther back we find george lyttelton aged twenty three beginning his life in literature as a poet with four eclogues on the progress of love .