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.”