William Hayley

(1745-1820)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hayley, William, 1745-1820 NRA: Hayley William (1745-1820) poet DNB: Hayley, William (1745-1820), poet and biographer LBT ID: WiHayle1820 VIAF ID: 45100846 LOC ID: n50034041	B/BAP: 1745-11-09 DIED: 1820-11-12
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English poet, patron of George Romney, William Cowper, and William Blake. His best-known poem, Triumphs of Temper (1781) was several times reprinted. Robert Southey said of him, “everything about that man is good except his poetry.”
REFERENCES TO William Hayley: Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 4 August 1802 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 5 March 1803 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 4 Walter Scott to Anna Seward, [March 1803] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 14 March 1803 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 17 February 1804 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Joseph Cooper Walker to William Roscoe, [July? 1805] in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Hoppner to Samuel Rogers, [1809] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 6 January 1809 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 31 August 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 John Murray to Thomas Campbell, February 1814 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Grahame, James, 1790-1842, Two more Letters: being the fourth and last (Edinburgh: John Fairbairn, 1817) Found 1: ¶ 6 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 1 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) Samuel Taylor Coleridge Found 1: ¶ 11 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 6 May 1824 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Henry Taylor, 26 May 1824 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 5 H. Marshall, M.D., “Ode on the Burial of Sir John Moore” in The Courier (3 November 1824) Found 1: ¶ 1 “Ballad on Sir John Moore” in Globe and Traveller (4 November 1824) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to Henry Taylor, 28 March 1825 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 18 February 1826 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 21 June 1828 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 5 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1819 Found 1: ¶ n1 Life of Byron: 1820 Found 2: ¶ 20 ¶ 38 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 1: ¶ 17 Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Moore's Life of Lord Byron” in Edinburgh Review 53 (June 1831) 544-572 Found 1: ¶ 41 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter V. 1795 Found 1: ¶ 37 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XI 1802-03 Chapter IV 1806-08 Found 1: ¶ 11 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. IX. 1802-03 Ch. X. 1804 Ch. XV. 1809 Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Ch. XXVIII. 1824-1825 Ch. XXIX. 1825-1826 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter IX Found 1: ¶ 19 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. VII. 1806-1811 Ch. XI. 1824-1832 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter II. 1805-1809. Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter XIV. Chap. XXIII. Found 1: ¶ 54 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1803 Found 1: ¶ 2