1756 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

David Mallet

Joseph Warton, in Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope (1756; 1782) 1:147.

Commentary for
David Mallet:

1733: Alexander Pope
1734: A. W.
1739: Anonymous
1739: A-s
1740 ca.: Aaron Hill
1741: Anonymous
1747: William Collins
1754: Samuel Johnson
1755 ca.: Sarah Scott
1756: Rev. Joseph Warton
1762: William Shenstone
1763: Robert Lloyd
1763: Rev. Charles Churchill
1763: Anonymous
1763: Anonymous
1763: Anonymous
1763: Anonymous
1764: Andrew Millar
1765: Cuthbert Shaw
1772: Anonymous
1780: Thomas Davies
1790: Anonymous
1791: Sir Joseph Mawbey
1791: James Robertson
1791: Francis Garden
1795: Dr. Robert Anderson
1797: Rev. Joseph Warton
1798: Alexander Campbell
1801: Arthur Murphy
1803: Joseph Moser
1803: Anonymous
1804: Rev. William Tooke
1807: Robert Southey
1822: Joseph Robertson
1824: William Hazlitt
1825: Allan Cunningham
1826: Richard Ryan
1859: William Anderson
1860: George Gilfillan
1876: James Grant Wilson

Commentary by
Rev. Joseph Warton:

1746: William Collins
1746: Henry Fielding
1746: Rev. Thomas Warton
1749: Gilbert West
1752: Robert Vansittart
1753: Robert Bedingfield
1754: Rev. Thomas Warton
1756: Joseph Addison
1756: Dr. Mark Akenside
1756: Michael Drayton
1756: Rev. John Dyer
1756: Elijah Fenton
1756: Thomas Flatman
1756: David Mallet
1756: John Milton
1756: Nicholas Rowe
1756: John Sheffield
1756: William Walsh
1761: Rev. Thomas Warton
1764: Rev. Christopher Pitt
1765: Rev. William Mason
1765: Francis Noel Clarke Mundy
1766: Oliver Goldsmith
1766: Samuel Johnson
1766: Bp. Robert Lowth
1780: Samuel Cobb
1780: John Nichols
1782: Rev. Richard Bentley
1782: Samuel Butler
1782: Rev. Charles Churchill
1782: Abraham Cowley
1782: Rev. John Donne
1782: John Dryden
1782: John Gay
1782: Bp. Joseph Hall
1782: Rev. Walter Harte
1782: Aaron Hill
1782: Nathaniel Lee
1782: George Lyttelton
1782: Ambrose Philips
1782: Alexander Pope
1782: Rev. Jonathan Swift
1782: Rev. Jonathan Swift
1782: Edmund Waller
1784: Ben Jonson
1795: William Hayley
1796: Sir John Denham
1796: Samuel Rogers
1797: Sir Richard Blackmore
1797: William Congreve
1797: Thomas Edwards
1797: Edward Fairfax
1797: Rev. Richard Farmer
1797: Elijah Fenton
1797: John Hughes
1797: Jabez Hughes
1797: Ben Jonson
1797: David Mallet
1797: Charles Sackville
1797: Rev. Joseph Spence
1797: Elizabeth Thomas
1797: Rev. Joseph Trapp
1797: Rev. Thomas Twining
1797: William Walsh

The nauseous affectation of expressing every thing pompously and poetically, is no where more visible than in a poem lately published, entitled AMYNTOR and THEODORA.