1838 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

Rev. James Grahame

Robert Aris Willmott, in Sacred Poets, Second Series (1838; 1853) 329.

Commentary for
Rev. James Grahame:

1805: Francis Jeffrey
1809: Lord Byron
1810: Sir Walter Scott
1810: Robert Southey
1811: Sir Walter Scott
1811: Allan Cunningham
1811: Anonymous
1811: John Wilson
1812: Thomas Campbell
1814: M. D.
1818: Thomas Park
1819: John Gibson Lockhart
1822: H. H.
1830: Rev. George Barrell Cheever
1833: Allan Cunningham
1838: Robert Aris Willmott
1851: Dr. David Macbeth Moir
1882: Margaret Oliphant
1882: Epes Sargent

Commentary by
Robert Aris Willmott:

1830: William Collins
1834: Richard Brathwait
1834: Rev. Charles Churchill
1834: John Payne Collier
1834: Sir John Davies
1834: Sir John Denham
1834: Rev. John Donne
1834: Michael Drayton
1834: Thomas Flatman
1834: Rev. Phineas Fletcher
1834: Bp. John Hacket
1834: Bp. Joseph Hall
1834: Rev. Peter Heylyn
1834: Ben Jonson
1834: Rev. John Marston
1834: Rev. Henry More
1834: Francis Quarles
1834: Joshua Sylvester
1834: John Taylor the Water Poet
1834: Geoffrey Whitney
1836: Rev. Joseph Beaumont
1836: Henry Kirke White
1838: Rev. James Grahame
1838: Bp. Reginald Heber
1838: Rev. James Hurdis
1839: Gabriel Harvey

The Sabbath has been compared to the Village Curate of Hurdis, whom he resembled in the spirit of his verse, and surpassed in harmony and all the graces of composition.