1827
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
Mary Howitt
Bernard Barton
, "To William and Mary Howitt" Literary Magnet NS 4 (1827) 47.
Commentary for
Mary Howitt:
1827: Bernard Barton
1828: John Wilson
1828: Felicia Hemans
1828: Caroline Bowles
1828: Bernard Barton
1830 ca.: Barbara Hofland
1833: Allan Cunningham
1836: Allan Cunningham
1850: George Gilfillan
1851: Dr. David Macbeth Moir
1855: Sarah Josepha Hale
1862: Thomas Arnold
1882: Epes Sargent
1884: Alaric Alfred Watts
Commentary by
Bernard Barton:
1812: William Cowper
1812: William Hayley
1812: Sir Walter Scott
1812: Mary Tighe
1814: Bernard Barton
1817: James Hogg
1818: William Roscoe
1819: William Wordsworth
1820: Dr. Nathan Drake
1820 ca.: John Scott of Amwell
1820: Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen
1821: Felicia Hemans
1822: Letitia Elizabeth Landon
1822: Charles Lloyd
1823: Charles Lamb
1823: Rev. John Mitford
1824: William Cowper
1827: Mary Howitt
1827: Sir Philip Sidney
1828: Mary Howitt
1828: William Howitt
1830: William Blake
1830: James Hogg
1840 ca.: John Evelyn
1843: Allan Cunningham
1846: Rev. William Branwhite Clarke
1848: Samuel Rogers
I may not praise a book in which
My name is thus recorded;
But think not less I prize the niche
Your friendship has awarded.
'Tis valued — not for praise implied,
Or vanity imparted;
But with a friend's far nobler pride—
As genuine, and warm-hearted.
Nor would I willingly resign
My nook in your small volume,
In sculptured characters to shine
On Fame's triumphal column.