1791
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
Edward Bysshe
William Gifford
, in The Baviad (1791) 27.
Commentary for
Edward Bysshe:
1703: Anonymous
1737: William Oldys
1763: Robert Lloyd
1791: William Gifford
1816: Lord Byron
1824: Robert Southey
1836: Isaac D'Israeli
Commentary by
William Gifford:
1791: Robert Burns
1791: Edward Bysshe
1791: Bertie Greatheed
1791: Edward Jerningham
1791: Robert Merry
1791: John Oldham
1791: Mary Robinson
1797: William Parsons
1797: John Williams
1800: Dr. John Wolcot
1806: Philip Massinger
1807: Rev. Francis Hodgson
1812: Charles Lamb
1816: John Aubrey
1819: Lord Byron
Happy the soil where bards like mushrooms rise,
And ask no culture but what Bysche supplies!
Happier the bards, who, write whate'er they will,
Find gentle readers to admire them still!