1748 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

Rev. Abel Evans

Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole, 1748; in Works, ed. Gosse (1895) 2:220.

Commentary for
Rev. Abel Evans:

1705: Thomas Hearne
1719: Rev. Abel Evans
1721: Erasmus Philipps
1748: Thomas Gray
1800 ca.: Robert Southey
1806: Rev. William Lisle Bowles

Commentary by
Thomas Gray:

1742: John Dryden
1742: Henry Fielding
1742: Richard West
1744: Dr. Mark Akenside
1746: William Collins
1746: Rev. Joseph Warton
1747: George Lyttelton
1747: Christopher Smart
1747: Rev. Joseph Spence
1748: Rev. James Bramston
1748: Rev. John Dyer
1748: Rev. Abel Evans
1748: Rev. William Mason
1748: William Melmoth
1748: Rev. Glocester Ridley
1748: Thomas Tickell
1748: Rev. John Whalley
1749: Rev. Thomas Birch
1750: Rev. John Donne
1752: Bp. Joseph Hall
1757: Rev. John Brown
1757: Rev. John Delap
1757: Rev. Laurence Eusden
1757: Bp. Richard Hurd
1758: Rev. John Brown
1758: Rev. John Huckell
1759: Robert Dodsley
1760: George Colman
1760: George Colman
1760: Rev. William Mason
1762: Robert Lloyd
1762: William Whitehead
1764: Rev. Charles Churchill
1765: James Beattie
1765: Bp. Robert Lowth
1766: Rev. John Brown
1768: Sir James Marriott
1769 ca.: Samuel Johnson
1769: William Shenstone
1770: Rev. Thomas Warton

Mr. Dyer (here you will despise me highly) has more of poetry in his imagination than almost any of our number; but rough and injudicious. I should range Mr. Bramston only a step or two above Dr. King, who is as low in my estimation as in yours. Dr. Evans is a furious madman; and pre-existence is nonsense in all her altitudes. Mr. Lyttleton is a gentle elegiac person.

Rev. Abel Evans

Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole, 1748; in Works, ed. Gosse (1895) 2:220.

Commentary for Rev. Abel Evans:

Commentary by Thomas Gray:

Commentary for
Rev. Abel Evans:

Commentary by
Thomas Gray: