1758
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
Rev. William Mason
Thomas Neville, in Imitations of Horace (1758) 93; Correspondence of Thomas Gray and William Mason, ed. John Mitford (1853) 83n.
Commentary for
Rev. William Mason:
1748: Thomas Gray
1749: Granticola
1749: D. H.
1749: C. B.
1752: R. D.
1756 ca.: Rev. James Hervey
1757: Mr. Boyce
1758: William Whitehead
1758: Thomas Neville
1760: Thomas Gray
1760: Edward Cooper
1761: William Shenstone
1763: Thomas Balguy
1763: Elizabeth Montagu
1763: Rev. Richard Shepherd
1764: Rev. Charles Churchill
1765: Rev. Joseph Warton
1768: Elizabeth Carter
1772: Anonymous
1772 ca.: Richard Fenton
1772: Edward Jerningham
1773: Rev. William Hayward Roberts
1773: Danos
1777 ca.: William Cole
1777: Philo-Musa
1777: Anonymous
1778: Samuel Johnson
1778: J. Boerhadem
1779: Rev. Vicesimus Knox
1779: Anonymous
1779: Philo-Musa
1782: William Hayley
1784: Dr. Warwick
1785: H. S.
1785: Rev. Richard Polwhele
1786: Rev. Robert Potter
1788: Nassovius
1788: Anonymous
1788: Anonymous
1788: Rev. Robert Greville
1790: Rev. Bryan Waller
1790: Rev. Andrew Macdonald
1791: James Boswell
1791: Francis Garden
1792: John Bennet
1792: Academicus
1794: Thomas James Mathias
1796: Anonymous
1797: Thomas Park
1797: Anonymous
1797: Hannah More
1797: Dr. John Aikin
1797: Dr. J. Crane
1797: Brooke Boothby
1797: Bp. Richard Hurd
1797: Thomas Gisborne
1797: Anna Seward
1797: Rev. Henry Francis Cary
1798: J. K.
1798: Thomas James Mathias
1798: Michael Wodhull
1800 ca.: George Hardinge
1800: Thomas Dermody
1801: Dr. Erasmus Darwin
1801: John Penn
1802: George Dyer
1803: Elizabeth, Countess Harcourt
1806: Richard Cumberland
1806: William Hayley
1815: Mary Russell Mitford
1815: Richard Nares
1822: Anonymous
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1825 ca.: Joseph Cradock
1826: Herbert Barton
1827: Robert Southey
1830: Richard Warner
1833: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1845: John Holland
1853: Rev. John Mitford
1860: George Gilfillan
1882: Epes Sargent
1891: Samuel Smiles
1910: Ralph Straus
Commentary by
Thomas Neville:
1629: Sir John Beaumont
1758: Rev. William Mason
Can Mason days of Gothic darkness grace,
And not to railings rouse the snarling race?
Mason, who writes not with low sons of rhyme,
But on Pindaric pinions soars sublime.
