1818 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

Samuel Butler

William Hazlitt, in Lectures on the English Poets (1818; 1909) 110.

Commentary for
Samuel Butler:

1672: Andrew Marvell
1683: John Oldham
1700 ca.: William King
1721 ca.: Rev. Samuel Wesley
1721: Anonymous
1721 ca.: Anonymous
1721 ca.: Anonymous
1721 ca.: Anonymous
1723: Anonymous
1738: Alexander Pope
1738: Anonymous
1741: Anonymous
1749: Anonymous
1750 ca.: Charles Wesley
1757: Rev. John Free
1759: William Warburton
1769: Rev. James Granger
1772: Anonymous
1782: William Hayley
1782: Rev. Joseph Warton
1786: Anonymous
1789: Elizabeth Hands
1795: Dr. Robert Anderson
1797: Anonymous
1797: George Dyer
1800: Thomas Dermody
1805: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
1806: Dr. John Aikin
1808: Rev. George Gregory
1812: George Dyer
1812: Anonymous
1812: William Henry Ireland
1814: Edward Mangin
1818: William Hazlitt
1819: Thomas Campbell
1822: Tobias Oldschool
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1827: Henry Neele
1835: L. L.
1842: C. H. Timperley
1850: Leigh Hunt
1859: David Masson
1880: W. E. Henley
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

Butler's Hudibras is a poem of more wit than any other in the language. The rhymes have as much genius in them as the thoughts; but there is no story in it, and but little humour.