Memoir of Francis Hodgson
Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson, 28 February 1814
There is a youngster, and a clever one, named Reynolds, who has just published a poem called
‘Safia,’
published by Cawthorne. He is in the
most natural and fearful apprehension of the reviewers;
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and as you and I both know by experience the effect of
such things upon a young mind, I wish you would take his production into
dissection, and do it gently. I cannot, because it is inscribed to me; but I
assure you this is not my motive for wishing him to be tenderly entreated, but
because I know the misery, at his time of life, of untoward remarks upon first
appearance. Now for self. Pray thank your cousin; it is just as it should be,
to my liking, and probably more than will suit anyone else’s. I hope and
trust you are well and well-doing.
Peace be with you!
Ever yours, my dear friend,
James Cawthorne (1832 fl.)
London bookseller who published Byron's
English Bards and Scotch
Reviewers (1809); he had a shop at 132 Strand from 1810-32.
Francis Hodgson (1781-1852)
Provost of Eton College, translator of Juvenal (1807) and close friend of Byron. He wrote
for the
Monthly and
Critical Reviews, and was
author of (among other volumes of poetry)
Childe Harold's Monitor; or
Lines occasioned by the last Canto of Childe Harold (1818).
John Hamilton Reynolds (1794-1852)
English poet, essayist, and friend of Keats; he wrote for
The
Champion (1815-17) and published
The Garden of Florence; and
other Poems (1821).
George Thackeray (1777-1850)
He was assistant master at Eton College (1801), provost of King's College, Cambridge
(1814), and a notable book-collector.
