1779 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

Thomas Tickell

Vicesimus Knox, in "Minor English Poets" Essays Moral and Literary (1779) 2:277.

Commentary for
Thomas Tickell:

1711: Thomas Hearne
1717: Jonathan Smedley
1718: Anonymous
1721: Anonymous
1725: Thomas Cooke
1729: Thomas Cooke
1730: Anonymous
1738: John Ward
1740: Catherine Jemmat
1740: John Winstanley
1748: Thomas Gray
1754: Michael Clancy
1767: Oliver Goldsmith
1779: Rev. Vicesimus Knox
1787: Henry Headley
1794: Thomas Sanderson
1795: Dr. Robert Anderson
1799: Lady Catherine Rebecca Manners
1806: Dr. John Aikin
1807: Robert Southey
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1831: William Wordsworth
1860: George Gilfillan
1862: Thomas Arnold
1880: Edmund Gosse
1882: Epes Sargent

Commentary by
Rev. Vicesimus Knox:

1779: Joseph Addison
1779: Dr. John Armstrong
1779: Anna Laetitia Barbauld
1779: Rev. William Broome
1779: Thomas Chatterton
1779: Lord Chesterfield
1779: William Collins
1779: Sir William Davenant
1779: Rev. John Donne
1779: Michael Drayton
1779: Thomas Gray
1779: Rev. John Jortin
1779: George Lyttelton
1779: Rev. William Mason
1779: Rev. James Merrick
1779: John Oldham
1779: John Philips
1779: John Sheffield
1779: Rev. Joseph Spence
1779: Thomas Tickell
1779: Rev. Joseph Trapp
1779: Rev. Joseph Warton
1785: Edmund Smith
1792: Rev. Richard Polwhele

There is a force and solemnity in the poems of Tickell, which at least place him on a level with his patron [Addison] as a poet. His Colin and Lucy is one of the most sweetly pathetic poems in the language.