1815 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

Rev. William Mason

Mary Russell Mitford to Sir William Elford, 24 December 1815; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:248.

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
Mary Russell Mitford:

1810: Rev. William Herbert
1810: Margaret Holford
1810: Samuel Jackson Pratt
1810: Alexander Fraser Tytler
1811: Richard Alfred Davenport
1811: Frances Arabella Rowden
1811: Frances Arabella Rowden
1811: Anna Seward
1812: Lord Byron
1812: Horace Smith
1813: Robert Burns
1814: Thomas Campbell
1815: James Hogg
1815: Rev. William Mason
1819: William Hazlitt
1819: Barbara Hofland
1819: John Hamilton Reynolds
1819: John Thelwall
1820: John Keats
1820: Bryan Waller Procter
1821: Rev. William Lisle Bowles
1821: Thomas May
1821: Rev. Robert Potter
1822: Charles Lamb
1825: Amelia Opie
1836: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1836: Felicia Hemans
1841: Card. John Henry Newman
1842: William Hayley
1842: Charlotte Smith
1843: Robert Southey
1852: Christopher Anstey
1852: Susanna Blamire
1852: Mary Ann Browne
1852: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1852: Thomas Chatterton
1852: John Clare
1852: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1852: Joseph Cottle
1852: Abraham Cowley
1852: William Cowper
1852: Richard Cumberland
1852: Thomas Doubleday
1852: John Fletcher
1852: John Hookham Frere
1852: William Hazlitt
1852: Rev. Robert Herrick
1852: Thomas Hood
1852: Leigh Hunt
1852: Samuel Johnson
1852: Ben Jonson
1852: John Keats
1852: Walter Savage Landor
1852: Andrew Marvell
1852: William Motherwell
1852: Bp. Thomas Percy
1852: Samuel Richardson
1852: Percy Bysshe Shelley
1852: Sir Philip Sidney
1852: Robert Southey
1852: Horace Walpole
1852: William Wordsworth
1854: Thomas Dekker
1854: Frances Arabella Rowden
1862: John Hookham Frere

I must tell you that I have been reading Mason's Life and edition of Gray, with the most unmingled admiration of both authors. What poems, what letters, what biography! Oh, for more Masons and Grays!