1782
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
Sir William Davenant
William Hayley
, in Essay on Epic Poetry (1782) 66.
Commentary for
Sir William Davenant:
1629: Edward Hyde
1629: William Habington
1637: John Suckling
1638: John Suckling
1638: Thomas Carew
1638: William Habington
1650: Abraham Cowley
1650: Edmund Waller
1651: Samuel Sheppard
1652: Charles Cotton
1653: Sir John Denham
1659: Thomas Pecke
1670: Richard Flecknoe
1683: John Dryden
1690: Anthony Wood
1693: Rev. Samuel Wesley
1709: Thomas Hearne
1712: Anonymous
1734: Alexander Pope
1738: Anonymous
1764: David Erskine Baker
1766 ca.: Samuel Pegge
1779: Rev. Vicesimus Knox
1782: William Hayley
1789: Rev. Thomas Warton
1795: Dr. Robert Anderson
1800: Dr. Nathan Drake
1814: Isaac D'Israeli
1819: William Hazlitt
1819: Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1832: John Taylor Esq.
1837: Henry Hallam
1842: C. H. Timperley
1859: David Masson
1860: George Gilfillan
1880: Edmund Gosse
Commentary by
William Hayley:
1778: Sir Philip Sidney
1779: Dr. Nathaniel Cotton
1779: Bp. Robert Lowth
1779: Bp. Robert Lowth
1780: Eyles Irwin
1781: Anna Seward
1782: Sir Richard Blackmore
1782: Samuel Butler
1782: Abraham Cowley
1782: Sir William Davenant
1782: John Dryden
1782: Dr. Henry Harington
1782: Rev. William Mason
1782: William Julius Mickle
1782: John Milton
1782: Alexander Pope
1783: Helen Maria Williams
1784: Anna Seward
1784: Charlotte Smith
1785: William Melmoth
1786: Anna Seward
1787: Gen. John Burgoyne
1788: George Colman
1789: Rev. Thomas Warton
1789: Dr. John Wolcot
1790 ca.: William Cowper
1792: Dr. Erasmus Darwin
1792: Rev. Richard Polwhele
1795: William Collins
1796: James Beattie
1796 ca.: William Collins
1802: Rev. James Hurdis
1802: George Steevens
1803: Dr. Nathaniel Cotton
1803: William Duncombe
1803: Judith Cowper Madan
1805 ca.: William Roscoe
1806: Rev. William Mason
1810: Joseph Cooper Walker
1823: Francis Noel Clarke Mundy
1823: Sir Philip Sidney
Poor DAVENANT march'd before, with nobler aim,
His keen eye fixt upon the palm of Fame,
But cruel Fortune doom'd him to rehearse
A Theme ill-chosen, in ill-chosen Verse.
