1785 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

William Whitehead

Edmond Malone to Thomas Warton, 25 April 1785; in Warton, Correspondence, ed. Fairer (1995) 529.

Commentary for
William Whitehead:

1750: Anonymous
1755: Rev. William Mason
1757: William Shenstone
1757: Richard Owen Cambridge
1757: Bp. Richard Hurd
1757: Rev. John Free
1757: Horace Walpole
1758: Anonymous
1761: R. S.
1762: Rev. Charles Churchill
1762: Thomas Gray
1765: Cuthbert Shaw
1765: Anonymous
1769: W. G. E.
1770 ca.: William Cole
1772: Paul Pinchwell
1772: Anonymous
1773: Christopher Anstey
1774: Rev. John Langhorne
1774: Anonymous
1774: The Bellman
1775: Anonymous
1776: Alcibiades
1776: Philo-Musa
1777: Anonymous
1777: Philo-Musa
1778: Anonymous
1780: Anonymous
1785: C. J.
1785: Anonymous
1785: Edmond Malone
1785: Anonymous
1785: Anna Seward
1786: Rev. Robert Potter
1786: Anonymous
1788: Rev. William Mason
1788: Anonymous
1788: Anonymous
1795: Dr. Robert Anderson
1795: Anonymous
1804: Joseph Dennie
1804: Rev. William Tooke
1806: Rev. George Richards
1807: Robert Southey
1809: Dr. Nathan Drake
1811: Anonymous
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1851: Dr. David Macbeth Moir
1860: George Gilfillan
1880: Thomas Humphry Ward
1910: Ralph Straus

Commentary by
Edmond Malone:

1766: Rev. James Scott
1783: Lord Chesterfield
1783: William Gerard Hamilton
1783: William Shenstone
1785: William Whitehead
1786 ca.: David Hume
1786 ca.: Dr. John Wolcot
1787: Bp. Francis Atterbury
1787: William Hayley
1787: Bp. Robert Lowth
1787 ca.: William Walsh
1789: William Basse
1789: Rev. John Donne
1789: Philip Neve
1789: Edmund Waller
1790: Rev. William Alabaster
1790: Henry Chettle
1790 ca.: Rev. Knightly Chetwood
1790: Thomas Churchyard
1790 ca.: John Gilbert Cooper
1790: Abraham Fraunce
1790: Hugh Holland
1790: Dr. Thomas Lodge
1790: Moses Mendez
1790: George Peele
1790: Sir Walter Raleigh
1790 ca.: Rev. Joseph Spence
1790 ca.: James Thomson
1791: Rev. John Dyer
1791: Alexander Pope
1793: John Dryden
1793 ca.: John Hawkesworth
1793: Samuel Richardson
1795 ca.: Horace Walpole
1796: William Henry Ireland
1800: Sir William Cavendish
1800 ca.: Rev. Richard Farmer
1800: Sir Charles Sedley
1800: Elizabeth Thomas
1800: William Walsh
1807: Isaac Reed
1808: Bp. Richard Hurd
1810: Rev. Thomas Fuller

Some of your friends here have spoken of you for the Laureat, and wish you to think of it for yourself. Whitehead redeem'd the fame of the place, and the crown may now be worn with honour.