1807 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

William Gifford

Thomas Campbell, 6 July 1807; in William Beattie, Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell (1849) 2:110.

Commentary for
William Gifford:

1792: Anonymous
1793: Anonymous
1796: Thomas James Mathias
1797: Anonymous
1797: George Dyer
1800: Anonymous
1800: Nestor
1800: Anonymous
1800: Anonymous
1800: Anonymous
1800: Anonymous
1801: Alexander Thomson
1802: Joseph Dennie
1803: Richard Nares
1803: J. C. H.
1807: Thomas Campbell
1807: Lady Anne Hamilton
1808: Bp. Richard Mant
1808: Sir Walter Scott
1808: Elizabeth Trefusis
1808: Rev. William Herbert
1809: Lord Byron
1809: Robert Southey
1810: J. G.
1812: Anonymous
1813: Edward Thurlow
1813: Lord Byron
1814: Leigh Hunt
1814: John Gwilliam
1815: George Ticknor
1816: John Taylor Esq.
1816: John Murray
1817: Anonymous
1818: Rev. Francis Hodgson
1818: James Hogg
1818: Anonymous
1820: Anonymous
1820: John Taylor Esq.
1822: William Maginn
1823: John Wilson
1823: John Taylor Esq.
1825 ca.: Henry Mackenzie
1825: William Hazlitt
1827: Sir Walter Scott
1827: John Taylor Esq.
1827: Author of Hist. and Lit. Tour
1829: Anna Brownell Jameson
1830: Thomas Babington Macaulay
1831: Rev. Richard Polwhele
1832: John Taylor Esq.
1833: Allan Cunningham
1834: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
1837: Robert Southey
1850: Leigh Hunt
1856: Walter Savage Landor
1858: Cyrus Redding
1873: Joseph Devey
1882: Epes Sargent
1891: Samuel Smiles
1898: Rowland E. Prothero

Commentary by
Thomas Campbell:

1796: John Millar
1802: Sir James Mackintosh
1802: John Thelwall
1805: Sir Walter Scott
1807: William Gifford
1808: Rev. Percival Stockdale
1809: Sir Walter Scott
1812: Rev. James Grahame
1813: Samuel Rogers
1816: Robert Burns
1819: Rev. William Lisle Bowles
1819: Samuel Butler
1819: John Chalkhill
1819: Thomas Chatterton
1819: Dr. Nathaniel Cotton
1819: Abraham Cowley
1819: Sir John Davies
1819: Michael Drayton
1819: John Dryden
1819: Rev. Timothy Dwight
1819: Rev. Giles Fletcher
1819: John Fletcher
1819: John Gay
1819: Rev. Robert Herrick
1819: Ben Jonson
1819: Philip Massinger
1819: Sir John Mennes
1819: John Milton
1819: Rev. Thomas Parnell
1819: George Peele
1819: Alexander Pope
1819: Allan Ramsay
1819: Sir Charles Sedley
1819: Sir Philip Sidney
1819: Rev. Percival Stockdale
1819: Joshua Sylvester
1819: Rev. Isaac Watts
1820 ca.: Rev. George Crabbe
1828 ca.: Felicia Hemans
1829: Felicia Hemans
1831: John Taylor Esq.
1835: Horace Smith
1836: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
1836: John Wilson
1838: John Clare
1838: John Gibson Lockhart
1842: Henry Nelson Coleridge

Positively Ryde has a Boeotian atmosphere; or else the simplicity of my fellow boarders has smitten me. I sometimes call on the satirical Gifford, who is here; who "mentalizes" me for a few moments, but the impression lasts too short. The ennui, the want of conversation, is intolerable.