1780 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

Rev. Joseph Warton

Horace Walpole to William Mason, 22 March 1780; Letters, ed. Cunningham (1906) 7:344.

Commentary for
Rev. Joseph Warton:

1743: Rev. Thomas Warton the Elder
1746: Thomas Gray
1753: Samuel Johnson
1754: Robert Dodsley
1755: William Shenstone
1756: Elizabeth Montagu
1756: Robert Dodsley
1756: Samuel Johnson
1759: William King of Oxford
1761: William Warburton
1767: George Lyttelton
1767: James Harris
1772: Anonymous
1778: Rev. Percival Stockdale
1779: Rev. Vicesimus Knox
1779: Rev. William Tasker
1780: Horace Walpole
1782: Charlotte Anne Burney
1783: Frances Burney
1787: Hannah More
1787: Charlotte Warton
1787: Charlotte Warton
1790: William Cowper
1793: Anonymous
1794: W. P.
1795: Walter Savage Landor
1795: Samuel Rogers
1798: Thomas James Mathias
1800: Rev. William Lipscomb
1800: Bp. Richard Mant
1800: Anonymous
1800: Anonymous
1800: William Boscawen
1800: Rev. Richard Polwhele
1800: Thomas Green
1801: Rev. William Lisle Bowles
1801: Alexander Thomson
1801: J. M.
1801: Anonymous
1806: Michael Wodhull
1807: Robert Southey
1807: Anonymous
1807: Lady Anne Hamilton
1807: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
1809: Dr. Nathan Drake
1809: Anonymous
1810: Anonymous
1818: Lord Byron
1820: Philip Warwick
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1826: Richard Ryan
1843: Edward Quillinan
1860: George Gilfillan
1891: George Birkbeck Hill
1893: William Lyon Phelps

Commentary by
Horace Walpole:

1743: Charles Sackville
1744: Rev. Thomas Carte
1749: Bp. Francis Atterbury
1750: Rev. Joseph Spence
1751: George Lyttelton
1751: Sir Charles Hanbury Williams
1752: Archibald Campbell
1753: Rev. John Dart
1755: William Gerard Hamilton
1757: Dr. Mark Akenside
1757: Thomas Gray
1757: Francis Quarles
1757: William Whitehead
1758: Rev. John Jortin
1758: John Sheffield
1760: Rev. William Dodd
1760: Tobias Smollett
1762: Rev. Thomas Warton
1763: Rev. Charles Churchill
1764: Rev. Charles Churchill
1764: Samuel Richardson
1766: Christopher Anstey
1766: Edmund Burke
1766: Rev. James Scott
1766: Rev. John Wesley
1768: Christopher Anstey
1768: Hugh Dalrymple
1768: Rev. James Granger
1769: Thomas Chatterton
1769: Rev. Francis Hoyland
1769: Rev. Michael Tyson
1770 ca.: Dr. John Armstrong
1770 ca.: Lord Chesterfield
1771: Samuel Johnson
1773: Elizabeth Sheridan
1774: Anna Laetitia Barbauld
1774: John Campbell
1774: Rev. William Dodd
1774: Oliver Goldsmith
1775: Rev. John Dalton
1775: Edward Burnaby Greene
1775: Sir John Harington
1775: Elizabeth Montagu
1776: John Chute
1776: Rev. James Granger
1776: Rev. Thomas Pentycross
1777: Gen. John Burgoyne
1778: Thomas Chatterton
1778: Edward Jerningham
1778: Rev. Robert Potter
1778: Clara Reeve
1779: George Keate
1779: Rev. Michael Tyson
1780: Rev. Thomas Birch
1780: George Colman
1780: Sir William Jones
1780: Rev. Joseph Spence
1780: Rev. Joseph Warton
1781: Rev. Richard Farmer
1781: Samuel Johnson
1781: William King
1781: Adam Smith
1782: Bp. John Hinchliffe
1782: Rev. Francis Meres
1782: Thomas Pennant
1782: Samuel Jackson Pratt
1782: Mary Robinson
1782: Rev. Thomas Stratford
1783: James Beattie
1785: Rev. John Cosens
1790: Edmund Burke
1790 ca.: Samuel Johnson
1793: Bp. Richard Hurd
1796: Edward Jerningham

Dr. Warton was so kind as to call on me this morning and made me very happy, as I was glad to be acquainted with Gray's friend. He was three hours at Strawberry Hill with Mr. Stonhewer.