1778 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

William Drummond

Thomas Percy to John Pinkerton, 27 November 1778; in Nichols, Illustrations (1817-58) 8:95.

Commentary for
William Drummond:

1610 ca.: John Leech
1614: William Alexander
1619: Ben Jonson
1627: Michael Drayton
1656: Mary Oxlie of Morpeth
1656: Edward Phillips
1656: John Spotswood
1729: Joseph Mitchell
1778: Bp. Thomas Percy
1792: William Cowper
1794: Robert Alves
1795: Dr. Robert Anderson
1800: Dr. Nathan Drake
1818: Thomas Park
1822: Charles Lamb
1823: Dr. David Macbeth Moir
1824: Anonymous
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1825: Henry Mackenzie
1826: Richard Ryan
1829: Anna Brownell Jameson
1836: Richard Cattermole
1847: Edward Farr
1851: Robert Pearse Gillies
1860: George Gilfillan
1866: John Payne Collier
1868: George Macdonald
1880: Thomas Humphry Ward

Commentary by
Bp. Thomas Percy:

1763: William Oldys
1772: Bp. Beilby Porteus
1778: William Drummond
1780: John Pinkerton
1788: Edward Jerningham
1788: Bp. Beilby Porteus
1800: John Huddlestone Wynne
1801: Thomas Stott
1801: Jane West
1808: Joseph Cooper Walker
1811: Anna Seward
1811: Jane West

He has always been a favourite with me, and I have long since been possessed of the thin folio edition of his works, published about the beginning of this century.