1812
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
William Thomas Fitzgerald
Anonymous, in "The Rejected Bards" The Satirist 11 (November 1812) 379 & 382n.
Commentary for
William Thomas Fitzgerald:
1800: Robert Southey
1802: T.
1802: Anonymous
1802: Thomas Dermody
1806: Vindex
1809: Lord Byron
1809: Anonymous
1812: Anonymous
1814: Lord Byron
1814: George Daniel
1815: John Nichols
1827: John Taylor Esq.
1830: John Taylor Esq.
1832: John Taylor Esq.
1833: James Smith
FITZGERALD'S ravings lose their worth;
Of fury full and sound,
His literary fund brings forth
No fund of "Twenty Pound."
Fitzgerald, who spouts one of his own effusions annually, at the Literary Fund dinner.