A Harrow friend and early correspondent of Byron. He later answered the poet in The Wrath of Cain (1822) and published an edition of Shakespeare (1825) and other literary projects. Harness was a longtime friend of Mary Russell Mitford.

REFERENCES TO WORKS BY William Harness:

The Connexion of Christianity with Human Happiness: being the Substance of the Boyle Lectures for the year 1821.

The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: with Notes, critical, historical, and explanatory, selected from the most eminent Commentators; to which is prefixed a Life of the Author.

The Image of God in Man. Four Sermons preached before the University of Cambridge.

Modern Claims to miraculous Gifts of the Spirit, considered in a Sermon, preached, November 6, 1831, at the St. Pancras Parochial Chapel, in Regent Square.

The Plays of Philip Massinger: adapted for Family Reading, and the use of Young Persons, by the omission of objectionable Passages.

“Paragraph Bibles” in Edinburgh Review.

“Reverses; a Tale of the Past Season” in Blackwood's Magazine.

Scenes written last Autumn during some solitary walks at the Lakes and in North Wales.

“Hunter on The Tempest” in Quarterly Review.

Visiting Societies and Lay Readers: a Letter to the Lord Bishop of London.

Welcome & Farewell, a Tragedy; with the Author's kind Regards.