Keate. Works Keate wrote as an amateur. His works were: Ancient and Modern Rome, 1760; an anonymous poem in blank verse, written in 1755. Short Account of the Ancient History, present Government and Laws of the Republic of Geneva, 1761; dedicated to Voltaire. Epistle [in verse] from Lady Jane Grey to Lord Guildford Dudley, supposed to have been written in the Tower of London a few days before they were executed, 1762. The Alps, a Poem, 1763, dedicated to Edward Young. Netley Abbey, an Elegy, 1764; 2nd ed. 1769, and often reprinted with John Bullar's Visit to Netley Abbey. The Temple Student, an Epistle to a Friend', 1765.Poem to the Memory of the celebrated Mrs. Cibber, 1766, anonymous; for Susannah Maria Cibber.Ferney; an Epistle to Voltaire, 1768. In praise of Voltaire and his works, but with compliments to Shakespeare, for which the author was rewarded, in the jubilee year 1769, by the mayor and corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon, with an ink-stand made out of a mulberry-tree planted by Shakespeare, and with the freedom of the town.The Monument in Arcadia, a dramatic poem in two acts, 1773; suggested by Nicolas Poussin's picture Les Bergers d'Arcadie of shepherds and shepherdesses contemplating a monument with the words Et in Arcadia ego; used by Christian Felix Weiße for a libretto to a lost opera by Johann Adam Hiller.Sketches from Nature, taken and coloured in a Journey to Margate, 1779, 2 vols.; an imitation of Laurence Sterne, which passed through several editions, and was translated into French.Poetical Works, 1781, 2 vols.; they were dedicated to Dr. William Heberden, and included all his published poems, with many additions, the main being one canto of the Helvetiad, written at Geneva in 1756, and intended for a description of the revolution in Switzerland in the fourteenth century. He was dissuaded by Voltaire from completing it.Epistle to Angelica Kauffman, 1781.The Distressed Poet, a Serio-comic Poem, 1787; describing his troubles through a protracted suit at common law with his architect, Robert Adam.Account of the Pelew Islands, from the Journals of Captain Henry Wilson and some of his officers, shipwrecked there in the Antelope in August 1783, 1788. This work was based on the account of Henry Wilson. It was often reprinted (with a supplement by John Pearce Hockin in 1803), including in an abridged version, and was translated into French (1793) and German (1800). The French translation has been attributed to