1818 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

Dr. Erasmus Darwin

William Hazlitt, in Lectures on the English Poets (1818; 1909) 193.

Commentary for
Dr. Erasmus Darwin:

1783: Anna Seward
1786: Anna Seward
1788: Rev. William Bagshaw Stevens
1789: Elizabeth Carter
1791: M. C. S.
1792: Rev. Richard Polwhele
1792: William Hayley
1792: Francis Noel Clarke Mundy
1792: Anna Seward
1793: Isaac D'Israeli
1793: William Cowper
1796: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1796: Anonymous
1796 ca.: Dewhurst Bilsborrow
1798: Richard Lovell Edgeworth
1798: Edward Gardner
1800: Thomas James Mathias
1800: Dr. Nathan Drake
1801: Alexander Thomson
1802: Mr. Rainford
1802: Richard Lovell Edgeworth
1802: Anonymous
1803: Anonymous
1805: Charles Brockden Brown
1805: Anna Seward
1808: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
1809: Lord Byron
1811: Anonymous
1812: Charles Caleb Colton
1814: Leigh Hunt
1814: George Dyer
1818: William Hazlitt
1821: A Belle of the Old School
1824: George Dyer
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1827: Robert Southey
1833: James Montgomery
1851: Dr. David Macbeth Moir
1856: Samuel Rogers
1858: Cyrus Redding
1882: Margaret Oliphant
1882: Epes Sargent

Commentary by
William Hazlitt:

1817: Edmund Burke
1817: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1817: Robert Southey
1818: Anna Laetitia Barbauld
1818: Samuel Butler
1818: Thomas Chatterton
1818: William Collins
1818: Rev. George Crabbe
1818: Dr. Erasmus Darwin
1818: Rev. John Donne
1818: Thomas Gray
1818: Andrew Marvell
1818: Matthew Prior
1818: Sir Walter Scott
1818: William Shenstone
1818: Robert Southey
1818: Sir Richard Steele
1818: Rev. Jonathan Swift
1818: Edmund Waller
1818: Horace Walpole
1818: Rev. Thomas Warton
1819: Abraham Cowley
1819: Sir William Davenant
1819: Sir John Davies
1819: Bp. Joseph Hall
1819: John Hawkesworth
1819: Samuel Johnson
1819: Henry Mackenzie
1819: Thomas Shadwell
1820: Sir John Beaumont
1820: Francis Beaumont
1820: William Browne of Tavistock
1820: John Fletcher
1820: Rev. Phineas Fletcher
1820: Rev. Robert Herrick
1820: Ben Jonson
1820: Sir Philip Sidney
1820: Rev. Joseph Spence
1823: John Nichols
1824: Dr. Mark Akenside
1824: Dr. John Armstrong
1824: Robert Burns
1824: Rev. Charles Churchill
1824: William Collins
1824: William Cowper
1824: Samuel Daniel
1824: Sir John Denham
1824: Michael Drayton
1824: John Dryden
1824: John Gay
1824: Oliver Goldsmith
1824: John Keats
1824: Walter Savage Landor
1824: David Mallet
1824: Andrew Marvell
1824: John Milton
1824: Ambrose Philips
1824: Alexander Pope
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1824: Percy Bysshe Shelley
1824: James Thomson
1824: Edward Thurlow
1824: William Wordsworth
1825: Lord Byron
1825: Thomas Campbell
1825: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1825: Rev. George Crabbe
1825: William Gifford
1825: William Godwin
1825: Leigh Hunt
1825: Charles Lamb
1825: Sir James Mackintosh
1825: Robert Merry
1825: Sir Walter Scott
1825: Robert Southey
1825: William Taylor of Norwich
1825: William Wordsworth
1826: Charles Lamb
1829: Charles Brockden Brown
1830: William Godwin

I have myself outlived one generation of favourite poets, the Darwins, the Hayleys, the Sewards. Who reads them now?