Robert Shiels
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Life
?-1753 [also Shiells, or Shields]; employed as amanuensis on Dr. Johnsons Dictionary; published Musidorus (1748) and other poems; chief contributor to Lives of
the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland to the Time of Dean Swift (1753 by Cibber. ODNB
References
Dictionary of National Biography: under Cibber: Shiels wrote most of the Irish dramatist & actors lives in Theophilus Cibbers Lives of the Poets (1753).
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