[293] Samuel Rogers (1763-1855), the banker-poet, was known at this time by the Pleasures of Memory, published in 1792.—T.
[294] George Crabbe (1754-1832) had published the Library and the Village.—T.
[295] William Wordsworth (1770-1850), Poet-Laureate (1843). The Lyrical Ballads, composed with Coleridge, whom Chateaubriand omits to mention, were published in 1798.—T.
[296] Robert Southey (1774-1843), Poet-Laureate (1813). Wat Tyler and Joan of Arc both appeared before the close of the eighteenth century.—T.
[297] James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) had not begun to write at this time.—T.
[298] James Sheridan Knowles (1784-1862), author of the Hunchback and other once much admired plays.—T.
[299] Henry Richard Vassall Fox, third Lord Holland (1773-1840), Lord Privy Seal in the ministry of his nephew Charles James Fox (1806), and author of some translations from the Spanish poets.—T.
[300] Canning was the author of a number of satirical poems, many of which appeared in the Anti-Jacobin.—T.
[301] John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 to 1829, and one of the founders of the Quarterly Review (1809) and of the Athenæum Club (1824). He published occasional poems on British victories, such as Trafalgar and Talavera.—T.
[302] William Mason (1724-1797), a minor poet, author of the English Garden and of two tragedies, Elfrida and Caractacus.—T.