1675 ca.
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
Bp. John Hacket
Anonymous, Portrait inscription, 1675 ca.; William Beloe, Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books 1 (1807) 214.
Commentary for
Bp. John Hacket:
1675 ca.: Anonymous
1779: Samuel Johnson
1830: Robert Southey
1833: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1834: Robert Aris Willmott
1859: David Masson
1952: Mary Alden Hopkins
His face this Icon shewes, his pious wit
These Sermons: would you know him further yet,
Yourself must die; for, reader, you must looke
In Heaven for what's not of him in this booke.