William Mason

The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare , Milton , Pope , Thomson , Goldsmith , William Mason , John Langhorne , Burns , Erasmus Darwin , Edward Young

Influences on AR 's writings include the opera, contemporary travel writers, and Joseph Priestley 's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism, 1777.AR probably helped to produce the fashion for literary quotation...

The letters of Gray are addressed to the young Charles Victor von Bonstetten , who was a friend of Matthisson. AP 's introductory Advertisement remarks on the enthusiasm of Gray's feeling for Bonstetten, and expresses...

Anna Seward was eagerly awaiting the appearance of this poem in April. Though it was published at Bath, MS 's previous publisher, Joseph Johnson , was listed on the title-page as the London...

JW includes some juvenile work in this collection (a poem on Easter and another, written at her mother's request, beginning Thou sweet composer of earth-nurtur'd care, Sweet Poesy!), and a piece reprinted from a...