1796
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
William Browne of Tavistock
Richard Polwhele
, in "Genius of Danmonium" Essays by a Society of Gentlemen (1796) 546.
Commentary for
William Browne of Tavistock:
1613: John Selden
1613: Michael Drayton
1613: Christopher Brooke
1613: William Ferrar
1616: John Davies of Hereford
1616: George Wither
1616: Anonymous
1616: Ben Jonson
1624: William Kidley
1627: Michael Drayton
1629: Samuel Austin
1646: Samuel Sheppard
1656: Anonymous
1680 ca.: John Aubrey
1728: Anonymous
1750 ca.: William Oldys
1771: A. B.
1772: Thomas Davies
1772: Gilbert Stuart
1787: Henry Headley
1795: Anna Seward
1795: Dr. Robert Anderson
1796: Rev. Richard Polwhele
1800: Rev. Henry Francis Cary
1812: Rev. William Beloe
1812: Anonymous
1812: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
1815: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
1815: A Constant Reader
1820: Anonymous
1820: William Hazlitt
1827: Henry Neele
1860: George Gilfillan
1866: John Payne Collier
1880: W. T. Arnold
1882: Epes Sargent
1882: Edmund Gosse
1910: Charles Mills Gayley
Commentary by
Rev. Richard Polwhele:
1779: Rev. Thomas Warton
1783: Bp. Lewis Bagot
1783: Rev. Robert Greville
1785: Dr. Hugh Downman
1785: Rev. William Mason
1785: Samuel Jackson Pratt
1786: Edward Drewe
1788: Anna Seward
1791: Dr. Hugh Downman
1792: Dr. Erasmus Darwin
1794: Hannah More
1795: William Cowper
1796: William Browne of Tavistock
1796: John Gay
1796: Thomas Gray
1796: Nicholas Rowe
1797: Dr. Hugh Downman
1800: Sir James Bland Burges
1800: Lady Sophia Burrell
1800: Hannah Cowley
1800: Rev. William Lipscomb
1800: Capel Lofft
1800: Amelia Opie
1800: Rev. George Richards
1800: Rev. Joseph Warton
1800: Helen Maria Williams
1803: Samuel Jackson Pratt
1804: Peter L. Courtier
1808 ca.: Elizabeth Trefusis
1809: Bp. Richard Hurd
1811: Anna Seward
1814: Richard Alfred Davenport
1818: George Hardinge
1826: Edward Drewe
1826: Rev. James Hurdis
1826: John Struthers
1826: Dr. John Wolcot
1831: William Boscawen
1831: William Gifford
1831: Rev. Thomas Penrose
1831: Dr. John Wolcot
1834: John Herman Merivale
1836: Bp. Lewis Bagot
1836: Charles Fox
1836: Rev. Walter Harte
1836: Robert Southey
And o'er the dreary waste of years
Devonia mark'd some scatter'd rhymes:
But still, her eye suffuse'd with tears,
Wistful, she look'd to ancient times—
Ah! few, monastic Tavy's banks beside,
Few were the BROWNES that trac'd the silver-winding tide.