1776 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

Benjamin Victor

John Langhorne, Review of Victor, Original Letters; The Monthly Review 55 (September 1776) 233.

Commentary for
Benjamin Victor:

1776: Rev. John Langhorne
1778: Anonymous
1780: Democritus
1807: Robert Southey

Commentary by
Rev. John Langhorne:

1761: George Lyttelton
1762: Robert Lloyd
1762: Sir Walter Raleigh
1762: Sir Philip Sidney
1763: Rev. Charles Churchill
1763: Rev. John Ogilvie
1764: William Collins
1764: Mary Darwall
1764: William Shenstone
1765: George Colman
1766: Rev. John Ogilvie
1767: William Julius Mickle
1769: John Scott of Amwell
1772: Thomas Chatterton
1772: Rev. Phineas Fletcher
1773: Sir John Davies
1773: Andrew Marvell
1774: Rev. Robert Potter
1774: William Whitehead
1775: Thomas Gray
1775 ca.: Thomas Gray
1775: Mary Robinson
1775: Sir Charles Hanbury Williams
1776: Rev. Richard Graves
1776: John Tait
1776: John Trumbull
1776: Benjamin Victor
1777: Thomas Chatterton
1778: Rev. Samuel Hayes
1778: Elizabeth Ryves

Poor, honest, old Ben Victor! one of the best natured creatures in the world! We protest that we have seen ten times worse poetry, and twenty times worse prose!