1766 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

Oliver Goldsmith

Joseph Warton to Thomas Warton, 22 January 1766; Wooll, Biographical Memoirs of Joseph Warton (1806) 312.

Commentary for
Oliver Goldsmith:

1759: William Shenstone
1765: Anonymous
1766: Rev. Joseph Warton
1768: Frances Burney
1768: William Kenrick
1770: Corbyn Morris
1770 ca.: D. G.
1770: Thersites
1770: W. Willis
1772: Anonymous
1772: Anonymous
1773: T. S.
1773: Anonymous
1773: Orlando
1773: Anonymous
1773: Richard Fenton
1773: J.
1773: S. J.
1773: A. B.
1773: P. H. M. D.
1773: Rev. Percival Stockdale
1773: Anonymous
1773: Anonymous
1773: B. G.
1774: Horace Walpole
1774: William Woty
1774: John Tait
1774: Samuel Jackson Pratt
1774: Miss L.
1774: Richard Cumberland
1774: Anonymous
1774: Anonymous
1774: Anonymous
1774: Anonymous
1774: Cerynx
1774: David Garrick
1774: Anonymous
1774: Anonymous
1775: Robert Hill
1775: W. P.
1776 ca.: Joshua Reynolds
1778: Anonymous
1778: Anonymous
1778: M. Macgreggor, Esq.
1780: Thomas Davies
1787: A Clergyman of Ireland
1788: James Beattie
1788: Anonymous
1790: Robert Burns
1791: James Boswell
1795: Dr. Robert Anderson
1796: A Gentleman of Canada
1800: Thomas Dermody
1805: Charles Brockden Brown
1806: Dr. John Aikin
1807: Robert Southey
1807: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
1809: Dr. Nathan Drake
1811: Richard Cumberland
1812: William Henry Ireland
1813: Rev. William Cameron
1817: Anonymous
1818: Rev. Francis Hodgson
1820: Lord Byron
1820: Rev. John Graham
1821: Thomas Stott
1822: William Cook
1822: Tobias Oldschool
1824: William Hazlitt
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1825 ca.: Joseph Cradock
1826: Richard Ryan
1827: William Goodhugh
1829: Anna Brownell Jameson
1830 ca.: William Roscoe
1830: Rev. George Barrell Cheever
1830: Senex
1831: John Wilson Croker
1832: John Taylor Esq.
1850: Leigh Hunt
1880: Edward Dowden
1882: Epes Sargent

Commentary by
Rev. Joseph Warton:

1746: William Collins
1746: Henry Fielding
1746: Rev. Thomas Warton
1749: Gilbert West
1752: Robert Vansittart
1753: Robert Bedingfield
1754: Rev. Thomas Warton
1756: Joseph Addison
1756: Dr. Mark Akenside
1756: Michael Drayton
1756: Rev. John Dyer
1756: Elijah Fenton
1756: Thomas Flatman
1756: David Mallet
1756: John Milton
1756: Nicholas Rowe
1756: John Sheffield
1756: William Walsh
1761: Rev. Thomas Warton
1764: Rev. Christopher Pitt
1765: Rev. William Mason
1765: Francis Noel Clarke Mundy
1766: Oliver Goldsmith
1766: Samuel Johnson
1766: Bp. Robert Lowth
1780: Samuel Cobb
1780: John Nichols
1782: Rev. Richard Bentley
1782: Samuel Butler
1782: Rev. Charles Churchill
1782: Abraham Cowley
1782: Rev. John Donne
1782: John Dryden
1782: John Gay
1782: Bp. Joseph Hall
1782: Rev. Walter Harte
1782: Aaron Hill
1782: Nathaniel Lee
1782: George Lyttelton
1782: Ambrose Philips
1782: Alexander Pope
1782: Rev. Jonathan Swift
1782: Rev. Jonathan Swift
1782: Edmund Waller
1784: Ben Jonson
1795: William Hayley
1796: Sir John Denham
1796: Samuel Rogers
1797: Sir Richard Blackmore
1797: William Congreve
1797: Thomas Edwards
1797: Edward Fairfax
1797: Rev. Richard Farmer
1797: Elijah Fenton
1797: John Hughes
1797: Jabez Hughes
1797: Ben Jonson
1797: David Mallet
1797: Charles Sackville
1797: Rev. Joseph Spence
1797: Elizabeth Thomas
1797: Rev. Joseph Trapp
1797: Rev. Thomas Twining
1797: William Walsh

Of all solemn coxcombs, Goldsmith is the first; yet sensible — but affects to use Johnson's hard words in conversation.