1782
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
William Julius Mickle
William Hayley
, in Essay on Epic Poetry (1782); Mickle, Poetical Works (1806) xlii.
Commentary for
William Julius Mickle:
1763: George Lyttelton
1764: John Cunningham
1766: R. S-l
1767: Dr. John Armstrong
1767: Anonymous
1767: Rev. John Langhorne
1769: Libertas
1770: David Garrick
1771: Rev. Thomas Warton
1771: David Garrick
1771: James Boswell
1773: Richard Fenton
1778: Anonymous
1782: William Hayley
1788 ca.: Anonymous
1789: Anonymous
1791: R. C.
1794: Robert Alves
1794: Thomas James Mathias
1795: Dr. Robert Anderson
1795: William Taylor of Norwich
1806: Anonymous
1807: Robert Southey
1808: Robert Southey
1810 ca.: Sir Walter Scott
1812: Isaac D'Israeli
1819: Richard Hatt
1821: Bion
1822: Anonymous
1822: Thomas Gillett
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1825: Allan Cunningham
1843: John Holland
1845: Robert Phillimore
1848: John Forster
1860: George Gilfillan
1882: Epes Sargent
Commentary by
William Hayley:
1778: Sir Philip Sidney
1779: Dr. Nathaniel Cotton
1779: Bp. Robert Lowth
1779: Bp. Robert Lowth
1780: Eyles Irwin
1781: Anna Seward
1782: Sir Richard Blackmore
1782: Samuel Butler
1782: Abraham Cowley
1782: Sir William Davenant
1782: John Dryden
1782: Dr. Henry Harington
1782: Rev. William Mason
1782: William Julius Mickle
1782: John Milton
1782: Alexander Pope
1783: Helen Maria Williams
1784: Anna Seward
1784: Charlotte Smith
1785: William Melmoth
1786: Anna Seward
1787: Gen. John Burgoyne
1788: George Colman
1789: Rev. Thomas Warton
1789: Dr. John Wolcot
1790 ca.: William Cowper
1792: Dr. Erasmus Darwin
1792: Rev. Richard Polwhele
1795: William Collins
1796: James Beattie
1796 ca.: William Collins
1802: Rev. James Hurdis
1802: George Steevens
1803: Dr. Nathaniel Cotton
1803: William Duncombe
1803: Judith Cowper Madan
1805 ca.: William Roscoe
1806: Rev. William Mason
1810: Joseph Cooper Walker
1823: Francis Noel Clarke Mundy
1823: Sir Philip Sidney
'Twas thine to blend the eagle and the dove,
At once the Bard of glory and of love,
Thy thankless country heard thy varying lyre,
To Petrarch's softness melt, and swell to Homer's fire.
