1807
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
William Wordsworth
Anonymous, "To William Wordsworth, Esq. Author of Lyrical Ballads, &c. &c." The Sun (1 April 1807).
Commentary for
William Wordsworth:
1793: Thomas Holcroft
1801: Alexander Thomson
1802: John Wilson
1804: Robert Southey
1804: Anonymous
1805: Visconti
1806: Charles Lamb
1807: Anna Seward
1807: Lady Anne Hamilton
1807: Anonymous
1807: Anonymous
1807: Francis Jeffrey
1808: Bp. Richard Mant
1809: Lord Byron
1809: Anonymous
1810: Sir Walter Scott
1811: Anonymous
1813: Anonymous
1813: Rev. Francis Hodgson
1814: Leigh Hunt
1814: Thomas Barnes
1814: Francis Jeffrey
1814: Anonymous
1815: John Herman Merivale
1815: Anonymous
1815: William Rowe Lyall
1815: Francis Jeffrey
1816: John Hamilton Reynolds
1816: John Hamilton Reynolds
1817: P. G. P.
1817: Chandos Leigh
1818: Anonymous
1819: Bernard Barton
1819: Richard Henry Dana
1819: Anonymous
1819: George Ticknor
1819: John Gibson Lockhart
1820 ca.: John Gibson Lockhart
1820: John Scott
1820: Anonymous
1820: Anonymous
1820: David Carey
1820: Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen
1820: Anonymous
1820: Anonymous
1821 ca.: Felicia Hemans
1821: Dr. David Macbeth Moir
1821: Anonymous
1821: George Milner
1822: Anonymous
1822: James Harley
1822: Francis Jeffrey
1823: Anonymous
1823: Anonymous
1824: William Hazlitt
1824: Edgar
1824: Mary Leadbeater
1824: F. W. P. Greenwood
1825 ca.: Henry Mackenzie
1825: William Blake
1825: William Hazlitt
1825: M. J. J.
1826: J. R. P.
1826: Felicia Hemans
1826: John Gibson Lockhart
1827: A. P.
1827: B. M.
1828: Allan Cunningham
1828: Rufus Dawes
1829: C. H. Townshend
1829: Rev. Oliver William Bourne Peabody
1829: Nathaniel Parker Willis
1830: Felicia Hemans
1830: Rev. George Barrell Cheever
1831: Mary Howitt
1832: William Maginn
1832: John Taylor Esq.
1833: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1833: Alaric Alexander Watts
1833: John Wilson
1833: Allan Cunningham
1833: James Montgomery
1836: Isaac Clark Pray
1842: Robert Story
1843: Edward Quillinan
1843: Walter Savage Landor
1846: Walter Savage Landor
1846: John Dix
1850: Edward Quillinan
1851: Christopher Wordsworth
1851: Dr. David Macbeth Moir
1852: Mary Russell Mitford
1864 ca.: Zilla Watts
1866: Bryan Waller Procter
1871: S. C. Hall
1871: S. C. Hall
1872: James T. Fields
1873: Joseph Devey
1880: R. W. Church
1889: P. W. Clayden
1928: W. P. Ker
Ah! why this churlish silence, pray;
Thou know'st I did the Nuptials hail;
Yet nothing hast thou deign'd to say—
Why, gentle Poet of the Vale?
Art thou absorb'd in wedded joy,
Preparing for a Gossip's tale?
Or fondling o'er a darling boy,
The future Poet of the Vale?
Or dost thou woo the simple Muse?
Thy artless courtship scarce can fail,
For moral, kind, and tender views,
Endear the Poet of the Vale.
Oh! should'st thou to this region come,
Compar'd with thine a dusky gaol,
How gladly would my humble home
Receive the Poet of the Vale!