1818 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

Edmund Waller

William Hazlitt, in Lectures on the English Poets (1818; 1909) 109.

Commentary for
Edmund Waller:

1655 ca.: Charles Cotton
1667: Sir William Temple
1670 ca.: Lord Clarendon
1673: Richard Flecknoe
1678: Thomas Rymer
1680: Earl of Rochester
1683: John Dryden
1688: Aphra Behn
1688: Bevil Higgons
1688: Sir John Cotton
1688: Thomas Rymer
1693: Anonymous
1693: J. Talbot
1693: Anonymous
1694: Joseph Addison
1699: Charles Gildon
1700: Samuel Cobb
1700 ca.: John Hughes
1701: Anonymous
1710 ca.: Gilbert Burnet
1712: Bezaleel Morrice
1713: Rev. Henry Felton
1720: Giles Jacob
1721: Judith Cowper Madan
1721: Mr. B.
1721: Mr. Johnson
1728: James Ralph
1728: Jane Brereton
1735: Mary Barber
1739: Anonymous
1744: Dr. Mark Akenside
1746: Edmund Burke
1761: Rev. Charles Churchill
1769: Daniel Hayes
1774: Rev. Robert Potter
1776: Oliver Goldsmith
1776: John Nichols
1782: Rev. Joseph Warton
1787: Samuel Jackson Pratt
1789: Philip Neve
1789: Edmond Malone
1789: Anonymous
1795: Dr. Robert Anderson
1800: Dr. Nathan Drake
1802: George Dyer
1803: George Dyer
1806: Dr. John Aikin
1807: Robert Southey
1812: William Henry Ireland
1818: William Hazlitt
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1826: Richard Ryan
1829: Anna Brownell Jameson
1842: C. H. Timperley
1851: Leigh Hunt
1880: Edmund Gosse
1882: Epes Sargent

Commentary by
William Hazlitt:

1817: Edmund Burke
1817: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1817: Robert Southey
1818: Anna Laetitia Barbauld
1818: Samuel Butler
1818: Thomas Chatterton
1818: William Collins
1818: Rev. George Crabbe
1818: Dr. Erasmus Darwin
1818: Rev. John Donne
1818: Thomas Gray
1818: Andrew Marvell
1818: Matthew Prior
1818: Sir Walter Scott
1818: William Shenstone
1818: Robert Southey
1818: Sir Richard Steele
1818: Rev. Jonathan Swift
1818: Edmund Waller
1818: Horace Walpole
1818: Rev. Thomas Warton
1819: Abraham Cowley
1819: Sir William Davenant
1819: Sir John Davies
1819: Bp. Joseph Hall
1819: John Hawkesworth
1819: Samuel Johnson
1819: Henry Mackenzie
1819: Thomas Shadwell
1820: Sir John Beaumont
1820: Francis Beaumont
1820: William Browne of Tavistock
1820: John Fletcher
1820: Rev. Phineas Fletcher
1820: Rev. Robert Herrick
1820: Ben Jonson
1820: Sir Philip Sidney
1820: Rev. Joseph Spence
1823: John Nichols
1824: Dr. Mark Akenside
1824: Dr. John Armstrong
1824: Robert Burns
1824: Rev. Charles Churchill
1824: William Collins
1824: William Cowper
1824: Samuel Daniel
1824: Sir John Denham
1824: Michael Drayton
1824: John Dryden
1824: John Gay
1824: Oliver Goldsmith
1824: John Keats
1824: Walter Savage Landor
1824: David Mallet
1824: Andrew Marvell
1824: John Milton
1824: Ambrose Philips
1824: Alexander Pope
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1824: Percy Bysshe Shelley
1824: James Thomson
1824: Edward Thurlow
1824: William Wordsworth
1825: Lord Byron
1825: Thomas Campbell
1825: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1825: Rev. George Crabbe
1825: William Gifford
1825: William Godwin
1825: Leigh Hunt
1825: Charles Lamb
1825: Sir James Mackintosh
1825: Robert Merry
1825: Sir Walter Scott
1825: Robert Southey
1825: William Taylor of Norwich
1825: William Wordsworth
1826: Charles Lamb
1829: Charles Brockden Brown
1830: William Godwin

Waller still lives in the name of Sacharissa; and his lines on the death of Oliver Cromwell show that he was a man not without genius and strength of thought.