John Wilson

John Wilson ("Christopher North") was the son of a Paisley manufacturer. After study at Glasgow University, he took his M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford (1810). Wilson worked as an attorney in Edinburgh before joining the editorial staff of Blackwood's Magazine in 1817, where he became, with John Gibson Lockhart, one of the leading Tory journalists of the age. With support from Sir Walter Scott, Robert Southey, Reginald Heber, and others, he was elected professor of moral philosophy at Edinburgh University (1820-51).

TEXT RECORDS:

1812The Magic Mirror, addressed to Walter Scott Esq. by John Wilson.
1816The Children's Dance.
1816The Scholar's Funeral.
1817The Desolate Village. A Reverie.
1817Waking Dreams: a Fragment.
1819A Churchyard Dream.
1819The Radical's Saturday Night.
1822Desultory Stanzas upon receiving the last Sheets of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. LXV, from the Press. By Mr. North.
1822To the Veiled Magician.
1824[All Fools' Day.]

PUBLICATIONS:

A recommendation of the study of the remains of ancient Grecian and Roman architecture, sculpture, and painting: a prize poem. 1807.
Lines sacred to the memory of the Rev. James Grahame. 1811.
The isle of palms and other poems. 1812.
The magic mirror, addressed to Walter Scott esq. 1812.
The city of the plague and other poems. 1816.
Translation from an ancient Chaldee manuscript. 1817.
LIghts and shadows of Scottish life: a selection from the papers of the late Arthur Austin. 1822.
Little Hannah Lee: a winter's story. 1823.
The trials of Margaret Lyndsay. 1823.
The foresters. 1825.
Poems: a new edition. 2 vols, 1825.
Janus: or the Edinburgh literary almanack [with Lockhardt]. 1826.
Some illustrations of Mr McCullogh's Principles of political economy by Mordecai Mullion. 1826.
The poetical works of Milman, Bowles, Wilson, and Barry Cornwall. 1829.
The land of Burns: a series of landscapes and portraits. 2 vols, 1840.
Blind Allan: a tale. 1840?
The recreations of Christopher North. 3 vols, 1842.
The Noctes ambrosianae of Blackwood. 4 vols, 1843.
Specimens of the British critics by Christopher North. 1846.
Works, ed. James F. Ferrier. 12 vols, 1855-58.
Tales by Professor Wilson. 1865.
Essays critical and imaginative. 4 vols, 1866.
Letters from the Lakes by Professor Wilson. 1889.
Lakeland poems by Professor Wilson, ed. Bailey-Kempling. 1902.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

Scottish
Presbyterian

Glasgow University
Magdalen College Oxford
Bachelor of Arts
Master of Arts
Edinburgh University

professor
essayist
poet

Blackwood's Magazine
Edinburgh Literary Journal
Literary Souvenir
Janus
The Amulet
The Anniversary

Rev. William Lisle Bowles
Lord Byron
Thomas Campbell
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Allan Cunningham
Thomas De Quincey
John Finlay
Robert Pearse Gillies
Rev. James Grahame
Anne Grant
Rev. James Gray
Bp. Reginald Heber
James Hogg
William Knox
Charles Lloyd
John Gibson Lockhart
Lawrence Macdonald
William Maginn
John Malcolm
Dr. David Macbeth Moir
Dugald Moore
William Motherwell
Edward Moxon
William Roscoe
Sir Walter Scott
William Sotheby
John Wright
William Wordsworth

REFERENCE:

DNB; NCBEL; CBEL (3rd ed); DLB.

Dictionary of Living Authors (1816); Edward Quillinan, The Retort Courteous (1821); John Hamilton Reynolds, "Professor Wilson's Danciad" Westminster RevIew (July 1824); Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica (1824); "Poetry of Professor Wilson" Literary Magnet NS 3 (1827) 73-84; Living Poets of England: Specimens of the Living British Poets (1827); Thomas De Quincey, "Professor Wilson" Edinburgh Literary Gazette (6 and 20 June 11 July 1829); "Contemporary Poets: Professor Wilson" New England Galaxy [Boston] 12 (22 October 1830); George B. Cheever, Studies in Poetry ... Elegant Extracts (1830); William Maginn, "Gallery of Literary Characters: John Wilson Esq." Fraser's Magazine 3 (April 1831) 364 [portrait]; Robert Chambers, revised Thomson, Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen (1832-35; 1870); The Georgian Era: Memoirs of the most Eminent Persons (1832-34); Allan Cunningham, "Literature of the last Fifty Years" The Athenaeum (16 November 1833) 770; S. C. Hall, in The Book of Gems (1838); Illustrated London News 5 (1844) 89 [portrait]; Robert Chambers, Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844); George Gilfillan, in Gallery of Literary Portraits (1845) [portrait]; William Howitt, Homes and Haunts of the ... British Poets (1847); David Macbeth Moir, Poetical Literature of the Past Half-Century (1851; 1856) 130-41; obituary in Gentleman's Magazine NS 41 (June 1854) 657-59; Robert Shelton Mackenzie, "Life of Professor Wilson" in Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854); Samuel Warren, "A Few Personal Recollections" Blackwood's Magazine 76 (December 1854) 731-36; Professor Wilson: a Memorial and Estimate by One of His Students (1854); Charles Rogers, Modern Scottish Minstrels (1855-57); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); Heartbreak: the trials of literary life, or recollections of Christopher North (1859); Mary Gordon, Christopher North: a Memoir of Wilson 2 vols (1862); Life by R. S. Mackenzie in Noctes Ambrosianae (1863); Andrew R. Bonar, Poets and Poetry of Scotland (1864); William Anderson, Scottish Nation (1866) [portrait]; Ralston Inglis, Dramatic Writers of Scotland (1868); James Grant Wilson, Poetry of Scotland (1876) [portrait]; George Saintsbury, "Christopher North" Macmillan's Magazine 54 (1886); Frederic Boase, in Modern English Biography (1892-1921); Henry A. Beers "Crusty Christopher" The Century 45 (1893); Sir George Douglas, in The Blackwood Group (1897); Maclise Gallery (1898); G. B. S. Douglas, The Blackwood Group (1897); Arthur Cecil Hillier, "Christopher North" Temple Bar 116 (1899); Moulton, Library of Literary Criticism (1901-05); George Eyre-Todd, The Glasgow Poets (1903); Alan Lang Strout, "Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Wilson of Blackwood's Magazine" PMLA 48 (1933) 100-28; Alan Lang Strout, "John Wilson, Champion of Wordsworth" Modern Philology 31 (1934) 383-94; Elsie Swann, Christopher North (1934); Jack, OHEL (1963); Donald H. Reiman, introduction to The Isle of Palms (1978); Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database (1995).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for John Wilson:

1.	1809  Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey, 1 May 1809; Letters, ed. Knight (1907) 1:433.
2.	1811  Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie, 1811; Mary Wilson Gordon, Christopher North (1862; 1894) 112n.
3.	1812  William Wordsworth, 13 May 1812; Remains of Henry Crabb Robinson (1932) 50.
4.	1812  Francis Jeffrey, Review of Wilson, The Isle of Palms; Edinburgh Review 19 (February 1812) 373-88.
5.	1815  Anne Grant, 1815; in Mary Wilson Gordon, Christopher North (1862; 1894) 123.
6.	1816  William Roscoe, "To John Wilson" Scots Magazine 78 (May 1816) 375.
7.	1816  James Hogg to Lord Byron, 26 February 1816; Byron, Letters and Journals, ed. Rowland E. Prothero (1898-1901) 1:396.
8.	1816  Francis Jeffrey, Review of Wilson, City of the Plague; Edinburgh Review 25 (June 1816) 458-76.
9.	1817  Francis Jeffrey to John Wilson, 10 October 1817; Mary Wilson Gordon, Christopher North (1862; 1894) 155-56.
10.	1817  William Blackwood to John Wilson, 20 October 1817; Margaret Oliphant, William Blackwood and his Sons (1897) 1:127.
11.	1819  Robert Southey to G. C. Bedford, 27 February 1819; Selection from the Letters (1856) 3:124.
12.	1819  Lord Byron to John Murray, 10 October 1819; Letters and Journals, ed. Rowland E. Prothero (1898-1901) 4:384-85.
13.	1819  John Gibson Lockhart, in Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk (1819) 1:125-29, 3:255-61.
14.	1820  Reginald Heber to R. J. Wilmot, 26 May 1820; in Life of Reginald Heber (1830) 2:6.
15.	1820  William Blackwood to William Maginn, 24 July 1820; Margaret Oliphant, William Blackwood and his Sons (1897) 1:376-77.
16.	1820  John Scott, in "The Mohock Magazine" London Magazine 2 (December 1820) 673-74.
17.	1820  David Carey, in "The Mansion of the Poets" Beauties of the Modern Poets (1820) xxii-xxiii.
18.	1822  James Harley, in The Press, or Literary Chit-Chat. A Satire (1822) 28 &n.
19.	1823  John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson, June 1823; Mary Wilson Gordon, Christopher North (1862; 1894) 260-61.
20.	1825 ca.  William Wilson, in "A Welcome to Christopher North" 1825 ca.; Wilson, Poetry of Scotland (1876) 2:227.
21.	1827  J—y, "Literary Sketch on John Wilson's Poems" Living Poets of England: Specimens of the Living British Poets (1827) 2:85-91.
22.	1827  Anonymous, "The Poetry of Professor Wilson" Literary Magnet NS 3 (1827) 73-84.
23.	1828  Allan Cunningham to John Wilson, 11 September 1828; Hogg, Life of Cunningham (1875) 287.
24.	1830  Henry Glassford Bell, in "The Men whom I get Glorious with!" Edinburgh Literary Journal (30 October 1830) 225.
25.	1830  George Barrell Cheever, in Studies in Poetry ... A copious Collection of Elegant Extracts (1830) 382.
26.	1831  William Maginn, "Gallery of Literary Characters: John Wilson Esq." Fraser's Magazine 3 (April 1831) 364.
27.	1832  James Hogg, in Autobiography (1832); Works (1865) 2:450.
28.	1833  Alaric Alexander Watts, in "Envoy" 1833; Lyrics (1851) 327.
29.	1833  Allan Cunningham, in "Biographical and Critical History of the Literature of the last Fifty Years" The Athenaeum (16 November 1833) 770.
30.	1834  Ebenezer Elliott to John Wilson, 8 May 1834; Mary Wilson Gordon, Christopher North (1862; 1894) 361-62.
31.	1836 ca.  Mary Howitt, 1836 ca.; An Autobiography (1889) 1:255.
32.	1836  Thomas Campbell to an unnamed correspondent, 15 August 1836; Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell, ed. Beattie (1849) 3:215.
33.	1843  Edward Quillinan to Henry Crabb Robinson, 25 August 1843; Robinson, Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence (1870; 1872) 2:345.
34.	1845  George Gilfillan, "Professor Wilson" Gallery of Literary Portraits (1845) 183-92.
35.	1848 ca.  Edgar Allan Poe, in "Marginalia CLVIII, CLXXXI" 1848 ca; Works (1853) 3:552-53, 566-67.
36.	1851  David Macbeth Moir, in Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the Past Half-Century (1851; 1852) 128-41.
37.	1852  Thomas Babington Macaulay to Mr. Gordon, 16 July 1852; Mary Wilson Gordon, Christopher North (1862; 1894) 451-52.
38.	1854  Robert Shelton Mackenzie, "Life of Professor Wilson" in Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 2:xxv-vi.
39.	1855  Charles Rogers, in Modern Scottish Minstrel (1855-57) 3:85.
40.	1858  Cyrus Redding, in Fifty Years' Recollections (1858) 3:43-52.
41.	1860  William Smith of North Leith, 1860 ca.; Mary Wilson Gordon, Christopher North (1862; 1894) 159-67.
42.	1862  Thomas Arnold, in A Manual of English Literature (1862; 1885) 454-55.
43.	1862  Mary Wilson Gordon (daughter), in Christopher North (1862; 1894) 159-67.
44.	1871  S. C. Hall, "John Wilson" in A Book of Memories: Great Men and Women of the Age, from personal Acquaintance (1871) 319-36.
45.	1882  Epes Sargent, in Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry (1882) 374.
46.	1897  Margaret Oliphant, "Christopher North" William Blackwood and his Sons (1897) 1:254-316.
47.	1900  Rowland E. Prothero, in Byron, Letters and Journals, (1898-1901) 4:175.
48.	1911  George Saintsbury, in History of English Literary Criticism (1911) 427-28.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for John Wilson:

1.	1816  Anonymous, in Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors (1816) 392.
2.	1832  William Clarke and Robert Shelton Mackenzie, in The Georgian Era: Memoirs of the most eminent Persons who have flourished in Great Britain (1832-34) 3:585.
3.	1838  S. C. Hall, in The Book of Gems. The Modern Poets and Artists of Great Britain (1838) 90.
4.	1844  Robert Chambers, in Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844; 1850) 2:434.
5.	1847  William Howitt, "John Wilson" Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets (1847) 2:432-39.
6.	1854  Harriet Martineau, Obituary in The Daily News (1854); Martineau, Biographical Sketches (1869) 21-27.
7.	1854  Anonymous, Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine NS 41 (June 1854) 657-59.
8.	1854  Robert Shelton Mackenzie, "Life of Professor Wilson" Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 2:iii-xxxvi.
9.	1859  William Anderson, in Scottish Nation (1859-66) 3:652-55.
10.	1876  James Grant Wilson, in Scottish Poetry (1876) 2:72-74.
11.	1901  Frederic Boase, Modern English Biography (1892-1921) 3:1415-16.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)

1.	1802  William Wordsworth:   John Wilson to William Wordsworth, 24 May 1802; Mary Wilson Gordon, Christopher North (1862; 1894) 26-32.
2.	1811  Rev. James Grahame:   John Wilson, "Lines sacred to the Memory of the Rev. James Grahame, author of the Sabbath, &c" 1811; Isle of Palms and other Poems (1812) 397-415.
3.	1812  Sir Walter Scott:   John Wilson, "The Magic Mirror, addressed to Walter Scott Esq." Edinburgh Annual Register for 1810 (1812) 2:cvii-cxiv.
4.	1812  Elizabeth Smith:   John Wilson, "Lines written on reading the Memoirs of Miss Smith" Isle of Palms and other Poems (1812) 234-45.
5.	1815  Rev. William Herbert:   John Wilson to James Hogg, September 1815; Mary Wilson Gordon, Christopher North (1862, 1894) 130-31.
6.	1815  James Hogg:   John Wilson to Jane Wilson, June 1815; Mary Wilson Gordon, Christopher North (1862; 1894) 121.
7.	1815  William Tennant:   John Wilson to James Hogg, September 1815; Mary Wilson Gordon, Christopher North (1862, 1894) 132.
8.	1818  Lord Byron:   John Wilson, Review of Byron, Childe Harold, Canto Fourth; Edinburgh Review 30 (June 1818) 87-120.
9.	1819  Rev. William Lisle Bowles:   John Wilson? to William Lisle Bowles, 21 July 1819; Garland Greever, A Wiltshire Parson and his Friends (1926) 119.
10.	1819  Robert Burns:   John Wilson, "Burns and the Ettrick Shepherd" Blackwood's Magazine 4 (February 1819) 521-29.
11.	1820  Charles Lloyd:   John Wilson to William Blackwood, October 1820; Margaret Oliphant, William Blackwood and his Sons (1897) 1:265-66.
12.	1821  Thomas Campbell:   John Wilson, in "Christmas Chit-Chat" Blackwood's Magazine 10 (December 1821) 498.
13.	1821  Capel Lofft:   John Wilson, in "Christmas Chit-Chat" Blackwood's Magazine 10 (December 1821) 498.
14.	1821  Cornelius Webbe:   John Wilson, in Review of The Literary Pocket-Book; Blackwood's Magazine 10 (December 1821) 581.
15.	1822  Rev. Henry Francis Cary:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (April 1822); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 1:171.
16.	1822  David Hume:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (April 1822); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 1:156.
17.	1822  Charles Lamb:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (April 1822); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 1:170.
18.	1822  Henry Mackenzie:   John Wilson to William Blackwood, May 1822; Margaret Oliphant, William Blackwood and his Sons (1897) 1:270-72.
19.	1822  Horace Walpole:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (March 1822); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 1:132.
20.	1823  Thomas D'Urfey:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (July 1823); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 1:332-33.
21.	1823  William Gifford:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (March 1823); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 1:286.
22.	1823  William Maginn:   John Wilson, in Blackwood's Magazine (March 1823) 284-85.
23.	1824  John Wilson Croker:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (March 1824); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 1:393-94.
24.	1824  Letitia Elizabeth Landon:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (August 1824); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 1:466-67.
25.	1824  Thomas Medwin:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (November 1824); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 2:8-9.
26.	1825  Thomas Doubleday:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (September 1825); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 2:108.
27.	1825 ca.  Felicia Hemans:   John Wilson to William Blackwood, 1825 ca.; Margaret Oliphant, William Blackwood and his Sons (1897) 1:309.
28.	1825  Bryan Waller Procter:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (September 1825); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 2:98.
29.	1825  Mary Tighe:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (September 1825); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 2:103.
30.	1826  John Gibson Lockhart:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (November 1826); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 2:291.
31.	1826  Mary Russell Mitford:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (November 1826); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 2:287.
32.	1826  Percy Bysshe Shelley:   John Wilson, in Blackwood's Magazine 27 (January 1826); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882) 2:2071.
33.	1827  Rev. George Croly:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (July 1827); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 2:431.
34.	1827  Bp. Reginald Heber:   John Wilson, in "Heber's Hymns" Blackwood's Magazine 22 (November 1827) 617-22.
35.	1827  James Montgomery:   John Wilson, in "Montgomery's Pelican Island" Blackwood's Magazine 22 (October 1827) 497-502.
36.	1827  Adam Smith:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (April 1827); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 3:272-73.
37.	1828  William Cowper:   John Wilson, in Review of Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries; Blackwood's Magazine 23 (March 1828) 364).
38.	1828  Allan Cunningham:   John Wilson to Alaric Alexander Watts, 29 November 1828; in Alaric Alfred Watts, Alaric Watts, a Narrative of his Life, by his Son (1884) 2:26-27.
39.	1828  Felicia Hemans:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (November 1828); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 3:170-71.
40.	1828  Thomas Hood:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (November 1828); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 3:173.
41.	1828  Mary Howitt:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (November 1828); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 3:171.
42.	1828  John Malcolm:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (December 1828); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 3:383.
43.	1828  Rev. Henry More:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (November 1828); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 3:139.
44.	1828  William Motherwell:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (December 1828); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 3:192-93.
45.	1828  Thomas Pringle:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (November 1828); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 3:173.
46.	1828  David Lester Richardson:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (December 1828); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 3:198.
47.	1828  Charles Swain:   Anonymous, Review of Swain, Metrical Essays; New Monthly Magazine NS 24 (March 1828) 105.
48.	1828  Alaric Alexander Watts:   John Wilson to Alaric Alexander Watts, 29 November 1828; in Alaric Alfred Watts, Alaric Watts, a Narrative of his Life, by his Son (1884) 2:26-27.
49.	1829  Mary Ann Browne:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (December 1829); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 415-16.
50.	1829  Thomas John Dibdin:   John Wilson, Note to "Letter from Thomas Dibdin, Esq." Blackwood's Magazine 26 (December 1829) 912-13n.
51.	1829  Anna Brownell Jameson:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (December 1829); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 415.
52.	1830  George Colman the Younger:   John Wilson, Review of Colman, Random Records; Blackwood's Magazine 28 (August 1830) 362-64.
53.	1830  Thomas Babington Macaulay:   John Wilson, in Blackwood's Magazine 17 (April 1830) 679.
54.	1830  Dugald Moore:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (August 1830); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 4:93-94.
55.	1831  James Beattie:   John Wilson, in "An Hour's Talk about Poetry" 1831; Recreations of Christopher North (1852) 88.
56.	1831  Rev. William Lisle Bowles:   John Wilson, in "An Hour's Talk about Poetry" 1831; Recreations of Christopher North (1852) 73.
57.	1831  Anne Bradstreet:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (February 1831); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 4:252-53.
58.	1831  Robert Burns:   John Wilson, in "An Hour's Talk about Poetry" 1831; Recreations of Christopher North (1852) 80.
59.	1831  Lord Byron:   John Wilson, in "An Hour's Talk about Poetry" 1831; Recreations of Christopher North (1852) 78.
60.	1831  John Clare:   John Wilson, in "An Hour's Talk about Poetry" 1831; Recreations of Christopher North (1852) 84.
61.	1831  Samuel Taylor Coleridge:   John Wilson, in "An Hour's Talk about Poetry" 1831; Recreations of Christopher North (1852) 75.
62.	1831  Henry Nelson Coleridge:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (January 1831); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 4:222.
63.	1831  Rev. George Crabbe:   John Wilson, in "An Hour's Talk About Poetry"1831; Recreations of Christopher North (1852) 72.
64.	1831  Ebenezer Elliott:   John Wilson, in "An Hour's Talk about Poetry" 1831; Recreations of Christopher North (1852) 85-86.
65.	1831  William Howitt:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (April 1831); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 4:315-16.
66.	1831  Dr. David Macbeth Moir:   John Wilson, in "An Hour's Talk about Poetry" 1831; Recreations of Christopher North (1852) 89.
67.	1831  Sir Walter Scott:   John Wilson, in "An Hour's Talk about Poetry" 1831; Recreations of Christopher North (1852) 77.
68.	1831  James Thomson:   John Wilson, in "An Hour's Talk about Poetry" 1831; Recreations of Christopher North (1852) 88.
69.	1831  Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen:   John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (April 1831); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 4:315-16.
70.	1832  Edward Moxon:   John Wilson to Jane Wilson, 11 July 1832; Mary Wilson Gordon, Christopher North (1862; 1894) 341.
71.	1832  Allan Ramsay:   John Wilson, in Blackwood's Magazine 31 (June 1832) 985.
72.	1832  John Wright:   John Wilson, in Blackwood's Magazine 31 (May 1832) 723.
73.	1833  Samuel Taylor Coleridge:   John Wilson, in "Spenser" Blackwood's Magazine 34 (1833) 807.
74.	1833  John Gay:   John Wilson, in "Spenser" Blackwood's Magazine 34 (1833) 810-11.
75.	1833  Gabriel Harvey:   John Wilson, in "Spenser" Blackwood's Magazine 34 (1833) 809.
76.	1833  Alexander Pope:   John Wilson, in "Spenser" Blackwood's Magazine 34 (1833) 810.
77.	1833  Sir Walter Scott:   John Wilson, in "Spenser" Blackwood's Magazine 34 (1833) 806.
78.	1833  Robert Southey:   John Wilson, in "Spenser" Blackwood's Magazine 34 (1833) 807.
79.	1833  Rev. Henry John Todd:   John Wilson, in "Spenser" Blackwood's Magazine 34 (1833) 807.
80.	1833  Joseph Cooper Walker:   John Wilson, in "Spenser" Blackwood's Magazine 34 (1833) 809.
81.	1833  William Wordsworth:   John Wilson, in "Spenser" Blackwood's Magazine 34 (1833) 806-07.
82.	1834  Rev. Phineas Fletcher:   John Wilson, in Blackwood's Magazine 36 (1834) 515.
83.	1834  James Hogg:   John Wilson to James Hogg, 1834; Mary Wilson Gordon, Christopher North (1862; 1894) 365-67.
84.	1834  John Hughes:   John Wilson, in "Spenser" Blackwood's Magazine 36 (1834) 424.
85.	1834  Bp. Richard Hurd:   John Wilson, in "Spenser" Blackwood's Magazine 36 (September 1834) 426-27.
86.	1834  William Sotheby:   John Wilson, in "Spenser" Blackwood's Magazine 36 (1834) 430.
87.	1834  Rev. Joseph Spence:   John Wilson, in "Spenser" Blackwood's Magazine 36 (1834) 418-19.
88.	1834  Rev. Thomas Warton:   John Wilson, in "Spenser" Blackwood's Magazine 36 (1834) 412-13.
89.	1835  Felicia Hemans:   John Wilson, 1835; Russell, Book of Authors (1860) 453-54.
90.	1844  Robert Burns:   John Wilson, in Essay on the Genius and Character of Burns (1844); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882) 1:302.
91.	1845  Rev. Charles Churchill:   John Wilson, in "Supplement to Mac-Flecnoe and the Dunciad" Blackwood's Magazine 58 (September 1845) 388.
92.	1845  John Hoole:   John Wilson, in "North's Specimens of the British Critics" Blackwood's Magazine 57 (April 1845) 513-14.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(biography records)

1.	1817  John Finlay:   John Wilson, "Some Account of the late John Finlay" Blackwood's Magazine 2 (November 1817) 186-92.
2.	1827  Bp. Reginald Heber:   John Wilson, Obituary in Blackwood's Magazine 24 (November 1827) 617-22.