1802 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

Rev. William Mason

George Dyer, in Poems (1802) 1:xxx.

Commentary for
Rev. William Mason:

1748: Thomas Gray
1749: Granticola
1749: D. H.
1749: C. B.
1752: R. D.
1756 ca.: Rev. James Hervey
1757: Mr. Boyce
1758: William Whitehead
1758: Thomas Neville
1760: Thomas Gray
1760: Edward Cooper
1761: William Shenstone
1763: Thomas Balguy
1763: Elizabeth Montagu
1763: Rev. Richard Shepherd
1764: Rev. Charles Churchill
1765: Rev. Joseph Warton
1768: Elizabeth Carter
1772: Anonymous
1772 ca.: Richard Fenton
1772: Edward Jerningham
1773: Rev. William Hayward Roberts
1773: Danos
1777 ca.: William Cole
1777: Philo-Musa
1777: Anonymous
1778: Samuel Johnson
1778: J. Boerhadem
1779: Rev. Vicesimus Knox
1779: Anonymous
1779: Philo-Musa
1782: William Hayley
1784: Dr. Warwick
1785: H. S.
1785: Rev. Richard Polwhele
1786: Rev. Robert Potter
1788: Nassovius
1788: Anonymous
1788: Anonymous
1788: Rev. Robert Greville
1790: Rev. Bryan Waller
1790: Rev. Andrew Macdonald
1791: James Boswell
1791: Francis Garden
1792: John Bennet
1792: Academicus
1794: Thomas James Mathias
1796: Anonymous
1797: Thomas Park
1797: Anonymous
1797: Hannah More
1797: Dr. John Aikin
1797: Dr. J. Crane
1797: Brooke Boothby
1797: Bp. Richard Hurd
1797: Thomas Gisborne
1797: Anna Seward
1797: Rev. Henry Francis Cary
1798: J. K.
1798: Thomas James Mathias
1798: Michael Wodhull
1800 ca.: George Hardinge
1800: Thomas Dermody
1801: Dr. Erasmus Darwin
1801: John Penn
1802: George Dyer
1803: Elizabeth, Countess Harcourt
1806: Richard Cumberland
1806: William Hayley
1815: Mary Russell Mitford
1815: Richard Nares
1822: Anonymous
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1825 ca.: Joseph Cradock
1826: Herbert Barton
1827: Robert Southey
1830: Richard Warner
1833: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1845: John Holland
1853: Rev. John Mitford
1860: George Gilfillan
1882: Epes Sargent
1891: Samuel Smiles
1910: Ralph Straus

Commentary by
George Dyer:

1797: Dr. John Aikin
1797: Rev. William Beloe
1797: Samuel Butler
1797: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1797: John Dryden
1797: Rev. Alexander Geddes
1797: William Gifford
1797: Rev. George Gregory
1797: Samuel Johnson
1797: Rev. Thomas Maurice
1797: Allan Ramsay
1797: John Taylor the Water Poet
1797: Alexander Thomson
1798: Dr. Robert Anderson
1802: Dr. Mark Akenside
1802: Abraham Cowley
1802: David Hume
1802: George Lyttelton
1802: Rev. William Mason
1802: Matthew Prior
1802: William Shenstone
1802: Edmund Waller
1802: Rev. Isaac Watts
1803: Abraham Cowley
1803: John Dryden
1803: John Milton
1803: Matthew Prior
1803: Henry James Pye
1803: Christopher Smart
1803: Edmund Waller
1804: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1804: Thomas Gray
1812: Robert Burns
1812: Samuel Butler
1812: Sir William Jones
1814: Dr. Mark Akenside
1814: Rev. Joseph Beaumont
1814: Lord Chesterfield
1814: Samuel Cobb
1814: Dr. Erasmus Darwin
1814: Sir Kenelm Digby
1814: Rev. Richard Farmer
1814: Rev. Francis Fawkes
1814: Elijah Fenton
1814: Rev. Phineas Fletcher
1814: Rev. Thomas Fuller
1814: Bp. Richard Hurd
1814: Rev. John Jortin
1814: Sir James Marriott
1814: Thomas May
1814: Rev. Henry More
1814: William Pattison
1814: Bp. Beilby Porteus
1814: Francis Quarles
1814: Thomas Shadwell
1814: Rev. Thomas Twining
1814: Rev. Michael Tyson
1814: Rev. Samuel Wesley
1824: Christopher Anstey
1824: Rev. Theodore Bathurst
1824: Rev. Richard Bentley
1824: Rev. William Clarke
1824: Dr. Erasmus Darwin
1824: Rev. Richard Farmer
1824: Rev. Francis Fawkes
1824: Rev. Thomas Morell
1824: Matthew Prior
1824: Henry James Pye
1824: Thomas Randolph

Mason's odes are elegant and classical; indeed, as hinted before, in reference to the ancient mythology, far too classical; but Gray's, of all others in our language, are the most truly lyrical and sublime.