1772 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

William Whitehead

Anonymous, in "Catalogue of the most celebrated Writers" Letters concerning the present State of England (1772) 401.

Commentary for
William Whitehead:

1750: Anonymous
1755: Rev. William Mason
1757: William Shenstone
1757: Richard Owen Cambridge
1757: Bp. Richard Hurd
1757: Rev. John Free
1757: Horace Walpole
1758: Anonymous
1761: R. S.
1762: Rev. Charles Churchill
1762: Thomas Gray
1765: Cuthbert Shaw
1765: Anonymous
1769: W. G. E.
1770 ca.: William Cole
1772: Paul Pinchwell
1772: Anonymous
1773: Christopher Anstey
1774: Rev. John Langhorne
1774: Anonymous
1774: The Bellman
1775: Anonymous
1776: Alcibiades
1776: Philo-Musa
1777: Anonymous
1777: Philo-Musa
1778: Anonymous
1780: Anonymous
1785: C. J.
1785: Anonymous
1785: Edmond Malone
1785: Anonymous
1785: Anna Seward
1786: Rev. Robert Potter
1786: Anonymous
1788: Rev. William Mason
1788: Anonymous
1788: Anonymous
1795: Dr. Robert Anderson
1795: Anonymous
1804: Joseph Dennie
1804: Rev. William Tooke
1806: Rev. George Richards
1807: Robert Southey
1809: Dr. Nathan Drake
1811: Anonymous
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1851: Dr. David Macbeth Moir
1860: George Gilfillan
1880: Thomas Humphry Ward
1910: Ralph Straus

WHITEHEAD. Ranks with a fair reputation among the minor poets of this age. The best of all his works is his Song for Ranelagh.