1799
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
Sir John Denham
Catherine Rebecca Manners
, in Review of Poetry (1799) 18-19.
Commentary for
Sir John Denham:
1648: Rev. Robert Herrick
1682: John Sheffield
1694: Joseph Addison
1700: Samuel Cobb
1713: Alexander Pope
1713: Rev. Henry Felton
1720: Giles Jacob
1721: Judith Cowper Madan
1769: Daniel Hayes
1776: Oliver Goldsmith
1779: Samuel Johnson
1789: Anna Seward
1789: Philip Neve
1796: Rev. Joseph Warton
1799: Lady Catherine Rebecca Manners
1806: J. E. Harwood
1806: Rev. William Lisle Bowles
1808: Sir Walter Scott
1808: Rev. George Gregory
1824: William Hazlitt
1834: Robert Aris Willmott
1835: Robert Southey
1837: Henry Hallam
1843: John Holland
1880: Edmund Gosse
1882: Epes Sargent
Commentary by
Lady Catherine Rebecca Manners:
1799: Sir John Denham
1799: John Fletcher
1799: Samuel Johnson
1799: Alexander Pope
1799: Matthew Prior
1799: Richard Savage
1799: Rev. Jonathan Swift
1799: Thomas Tickell
Loyal Cowley's virtuous mind
Copious wit to learning join'd.
Denham in more measur'd lines
British poesy refines,
Teaching in his nervous page
Skill to the succeeding age.