1800 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

William Godwin

Reginald Heber to John Thornton, 29 February 1800; in Life of Reginald Heber (1830) 1:13.

Commentary for
William Godwin:

1794: Joseph Ritson
1795: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1796: William Wordsworth
1796: Anna Seward
1800: Charles Lamb
1800: Bp. Reginald Heber
1800: Thomas Green
1801: Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe
1804: Robert Southey
1804: Sir Walter Scott
1805: Robert Southey
1811: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1815: Sir James Mackintosh
1816: Sir James Mackintosh
1817: John Wilson Croker
1818: Anonymous
1819: George Ticknor
1820: Percy Bysshe Shelley
1820: John Scott
1822: James Harley
1825: William Hazlitt
1830: William Hazlitt
1832: Mary Shelley
1833: Allan Cunningham
1834: William Maginn
1837: Thomas Noon Talfourd
1848: Horace Smith
1871: S. C. Hall
1877: Bryan Waller Procter
1878: Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke

Commentary by
Bp. Reginald Heber:

1800: William Godwin
1804: Sir William Jones
1809: William Cowper
1811: Robert Southey
1811: Mary Tighe
1815: Bp. Reginald Heber
1820: Rev. John Wesley
1820: John Wilson
1821: Felicia Hemans
1822: John Gibson Lockhart

I believe you will remember young Bowler the baker, how he used always to read in his cart. I examined his books some days ago, and found they were Volney, Voltaire, and Godwin. These are the fruits of circulating libraries.