His Wallenstein. Schiller’s, 1799; Coleridge’s, 1800.
Cumberland’s imitation. Richard Cumberland’s (1732–1811) Wheel of Fortune (1779).
Goethe’s tragedies. Count Egmont, 1788; Stella, 1776; Iphigenia, 1786.
Memoirs of Anastasius the Greek. Thomas Hope’s (1770–1831) Eastern romance was published in 1819 and was received with enthusiasm by the Edinburgh Review.
When in the fine summer evenings. Werther (ed. Bohn), p. 337.
[364]. As often got without merit. Othello, II. 3.
SELECT BRITISH POETS
Dates, etc., are not given of those writers mentioned earlier in the present volume.
See W. C. Hazlitt’s Memoirs of William Hazlitt, II. 197–8, for the few details that are known concerning the origin of this work. It was the opinion of Edward Fitzgerald that ‘Hazlitt’s Poets is the best selection I have ever seen.’
[367]. Dr. Knox. Vicesimus Knox, D.D. (1752–1821), a voluminous and able author, preacher, and compiler. See Boswell’s Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, iv. 390–1.