1831 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

Samuel Daniel

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 11 September 1831; in Table Talk (1884) 138.

Commentary for
Samuel Daniel:

1592: Thomas Nashe
1595: Edmund Spenser
1595: Rev. William Covell
1598: Rev. Francis Meres
1599: John Weever
1603: Thomas Greene
1606: Anonymous
1611 ca.: John Davies of Hereford
1614: Thomas Freeman
1614: John Taylor the Water Poet
1616: Rev. Robert Anton
1619: Ben Jonson
1627: Michael Drayton
1646: Samuel Sheppard
1656: Anonymous
1720: Giles Jacob
1728: Alexander Pope
1787: Henry Headley
1791: Anonymous
1795: Dr. Robert Anderson
1801: George Ellis
1809: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
1809: Charles Lamb
1824: William Hazlitt
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1829: Anna Brownell Jameson
1831: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1837: Henry Hallam
1842: C. H. Timperley
1845: Edward Farr
1860: George Gilfillan
1862: Thomas Arnold
1866: John Payne Collier
1879: Walter Hamilton
1880: George Saintsbury
1882: Epes Sargent

Commentary by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

1794: Edmund Burke
1794: Thomas Chatterton
1795: Rev. William Lisle Bowles
1795: William Godwin
1795: Robert Southey
1796: Dr. Erasmus Darwin
1797: John Thelwall
1798: Thomas Chatterton
1798: Joseph Cottle
1800: Sir James Mackintosh
1800: Mary Robinson
1800 ca.: William Roscoe
1800: Rev. Thomas Warton
1803: William Preston
1809: Thomas Brown
1810: David Hume
1810 ca.: Francis Quarles
1811: William Godwin
1814: Hannah More
1816: John Hookham Frere
1817: Rev. James Hervey
1817: Gilbert West
1818: Rev. Jonathan Swift
1819: William Maginn
1820 ca.: Dr. John Aikin
1820: Robert Burns
1820 ca.: Thomas Campbell
1820 ca.: Rev. Peter Heylyn
1820 ca.: Philip Massinger
1820 ca.: Rev. Henry More
1820 ca.: Alexander Pope
1821: Thomas Gray
1822: Lord Byron
1824: Abraham Cowley
1824 ca.: Alaric Alexander Watts
1829: Rev. John Donne
1829: Rev. Thomas Fuller
1830: Anna Laetitia Barbauld
1830: Rev. Richard Bentley
1830 ca.: William Congreve
1830: Charles Lamb
1830: Sir Philip Sidney
1830: John Thelwall
1831: Samuel Daniel
1831: Michael Drayton
1832: John Keats
1833: Francis Beaumont
1833: Sir Richard Blackmore
1833: Edmund Burke
1833: Rev. Robert Burton
1833: Bp. John Hacket
1833: Samuel Johnson
1833: Rev. William Mason
1833: John Milton
1833: Sir Walter Raleigh
1833: William Wordsworth
1834: Rev. George Crabbe
1834: Henry Fielding
1834: Walter Savage Landor

Daniel is a superior man; his diction is pre-eminently pure — of that quality which I belive has always existed somewhere in society. It is just such English as Wordsworth or Sir George Beaumont might have spoken or written in the present day.