1748 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

Rev. William Mason

Thomas Gray to Thomas Wharton, 5 June 1748; Poems of Mr. Gray, ed. Mason (1775) 190

Commentary for
Rev. William Mason:

1748: Thomas Gray
1749: Granticola
1749: D. H.
1749: C. B.
1752: R. D.
1756 ca.: Rev. James Hervey
1757: Mr. Boyce
1758: William Whitehead
1758: Thomas Neville
1760: Thomas Gray
1760: Edward Cooper
1761: William Shenstone
1763: Thomas Balguy
1763: Elizabeth Montagu
1763: Rev. Richard Shepherd
1764: Rev. Charles Churchill
1765: Rev. Joseph Warton
1768: Elizabeth Carter
1772: Anonymous
1772 ca.: Richard Fenton
1772: Edward Jerningham
1773: Rev. William Hayward Roberts
1773: Danos
1777 ca.: William Cole
1777: Philo-Musa
1777: Anonymous
1778: Samuel Johnson
1778: J. Boerhadem
1779: Rev. Vicesimus Knox
1779: Anonymous
1779: Philo-Musa
1782: William Hayley
1784: Dr. Warwick
1785: H. S.
1785: Rev. Richard Polwhele
1786: Rev. Robert Potter
1788: Nassovius
1788: Anonymous
1788: Anonymous
1788: Rev. Robert Greville
1790: Rev. Bryan Waller
1790: Rev. Andrew Macdonald
1791: James Boswell
1791: Francis Garden
1792: John Bennet
1792: Academicus
1794: Thomas James Mathias
1796: Anonymous
1797: Thomas Park
1797: Anonymous
1797: Hannah More
1797: Dr. John Aikin
1797: Dr. J. Crane
1797: Brooke Boothby
1797: Bp. Richard Hurd
1797: Thomas Gisborne
1797: Anna Seward
1797: Rev. Henry Francis Cary
1798: J. K.
1798: Thomas James Mathias
1798: Michael Wodhull
1800 ca.: George Hardinge
1800: Thomas Dermody
1801: Dr. Erasmus Darwin
1801: John Penn
1802: George Dyer
1803: Elizabeth, Countess Harcourt
1806: Richard Cumberland
1806: William Hayley
1815: Mary Russell Mitford
1815: Richard Nares
1822: Anonymous
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1825 ca.: Joseph Cradock
1826: Herbert Barton
1827: Robert Southey
1830: Richard Warner
1833: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1845: John Holland
1853: Rev. John Mitford
1860: George Gilfillan
1882: Epes Sargent
1891: Samuel Smiles
1910: Ralph Straus

Commentary by
Thomas Gray:

1742: John Dryden
1742: Henry Fielding
1742: Richard West
1744: Dr. Mark Akenside
1746: William Collins
1746: Rev. Joseph Warton
1747: George Lyttelton
1747: Christopher Smart
1747: Rev. Joseph Spence
1748: Rev. James Bramston
1748: Rev. John Dyer
1748: Rev. Abel Evans
1748: Rev. William Mason
1748: William Melmoth
1748: Rev. Glocester Ridley
1748: Thomas Tickell
1748: Rev. John Whalley
1749: Rev. Thomas Birch
1750: Rev. John Donne
1752: Bp. Joseph Hall
1757: Rev. John Brown
1757: Rev. John Delap
1757: Rev. Laurence Eusden
1757: Bp. Richard Hurd
1758: Rev. John Brown
1758: Rev. John Huckell
1759: Robert Dodsley
1760: George Colman
1760: George Colman
1760: Rev. William Mason
1762: Robert Lloyd
1762: William Whitehead
1764: Rev. Charles Churchill
1765: James Beattie
1765: Bp. Robert Lowth
1766: Rev. John Brown
1768: Sir James Marriott
1769 ca.: Samuel Johnson
1769: William Shenstone
1770: Rev. Thomas Warton

He has much fancy, little judgment, and a good deal of modesty; I take him for a good and well-meaning creature; but then he is really in simplicity a child, and loves every body he meets with: He reads little or nothing; writes abundance, and that with a design to make his fortune by it.