1787
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
James Beattie
Robert Burns
, in "To Miss Logan, with Beattie's Poems" 1787; Moulton, Library of Literary Criticism (1901-05) 4:431.
Commentary for
James Beattie:
1761: Robert Lloyd
1765: Thomas Gray
1770: A Lady
1771: Rev. William Mason
1771: James Boswell
1771: Buchanensis
1772: Anonymous
1772 ca.: William Warburton
1775: Rev. John Ball
1775 ca.: Rev. Thomas Blacklock
1775: Urbanus
1775: Anonymous
1776: W. P.
1778: John Scott of Amwell
1780: Samuel Johnson
1782: J. W.
1782: J. H.
1783: Horace Walpole
1783: Hannah More
1783: N. T.
1783: David Robertson
1784: Rev. Robert Potter
1784: John Pinkerton
1784: William Cowper
1784: Anonymous
1785 ca.: John Marriott
1787: Robert Burns
1787: Frances Burney
1793: John Thelwall
1794: Robert Alves
1795 ca.: Bp. Richard Hurd
1796: William Hayley
1797: Thomas Green
1798: Thomas James Mathias
1800: Rev. George Butt
1803: Alexander Balfour
1804: Anonymous
1805: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
1806: Dr. John Aikin
1806: Anonymous
1807: Francis Jeffrey
1807: Francis William Blagdon
1808 ca.: John Herman Merivale
1810 ca.: James Balfour
1813: Rev. William Cameron
1815: William Wordsworth
1819: John Keats
1823: Rev. Charles Burton
1824: Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin
1824: Anonymous
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1830: Rev. George Barrell Cheever
1831: John Wilson
1831: Anonymous
1835: Robert Southey
1851: Robert Pearse Gillies
1880: George Saintsbury
1882: Epes Sargent
1906: George Saintsbury
Commentary by
Robert Burns:
1787: Joseph Addison
1787: James Beattie
1787: Rev. Thomas Blacklock
1787: Rev. Hugh Blair
1787: Robert Fergusson
1787: Robert Fergusson
1787: Henry Mackenzie
1787: Allan Ramsay
1787: William Shenstone
1788: Alexander Ross
1790: Lord Chesterfield
1790: Oliver Goldsmith
1790: Charlotte Smith
1790: Tobias Smollett
1791: James Thomson
1793: Andrew Erskine
1793: Gavin Turnbull
1796: Dr. John Wolcot
No gifts have I from Indian coasts
The infant year to hail;
I send you more than India boasts,
In Edwin's simple tale.