Poet, scholar, and editor who began as a shoemaker's apprentice; after Oxford he published The Baviad (1794), The Maeviad (1795), and The Satires of Juvenal translated (1802) before becoming the founding editor of the Quarterly Review (1809-24).

REFERENCES TO WORKS BY William Gifford:

“Autobiography” in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.

“Badham's Translation of Juvenal” in Quarterly Review.

The Baviad, a paraphrastic Imitation of the First Satire of Persius.

“The Daughters of Isenberg” in Quarterly Review.

Epistle to Peter Pindar. By the author of The Baviad.

“Epitaph” in The Autobiography of William Jerdan, with his Literary, Political and Social Reminiscences and Correspondence during the last Fifty Years.

An Examination of the Strictures of the Critical Reviewers on the Translation of Juvenal.

I wish I was where Anna Lies.

“Within the Chambers of this tomb” in The Autobiography of William Jerdan, with his Literary, Political and Social Reminiscences and Correspondence during the last Fifty Years.

“Fragment of a Prologue” in The Autobiography of William Jerdan, with his Literary, Political and Social Reminiscences and Correspondence during the last Fifty Years.

The Dramatic Works of John Ford.

“Ford's Dramatic Works, by Weber” in Quarterly Review.

“Hazlitt's Characters of Shakespeare's Plays” in Quarterly Review.

The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.

The Mæviad. By the Author of the Baviad.

“On Seeing the Rose and Crown painted at Ashburton” in The Selector or Cornish Magazine.

The Plays of Philip Massinger.

“Poetical Letter from Gifford while at Oxford” in The Autobiography of William Jerdan, with his Literary, Political and Social Reminiscences and Correspondence during the last Fifty Years.

“Public Characters of 1809-10” in Quarterly Review.

“Woman; or Ida of Athens” in Quarterly Review.

The Works of Ben Jonson in Nine Volumes: with Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir.