-
tutor to Grosvenor's son. In
course of time he
produced his
first poem, The
Baviad (1791), a
satire directed against the
Della Cruscans, a
group of sentimental...
- as
sloppy and emotional.
Merry was the
subject of a
satirical poem, "The
Baviad",
written by a contemporary,
William Gifford. Cowley's
poetry was published...
- in reviewing". In
writing it, he drew on
earlier satires,
including the
Baviad (1791) and
Maeviad (1795) by
William Gifford (1791), the
texts published...
- good
terms with
Hester Piozzi. He was
piqued at his
exclusion from The
Baviad (1791),
William Gifford's
satire on the group,
leading to an
episode of...
- of the periodical, had
established his
style by
writing poems like the
Baviad (1794) and
Maeviad (1795),
which satirized Robert Merry, a
Jacobin writer...
- Faulder, the bookseller, for a
libel contained in
William Gifford's poem The
Baviad. In one of the
notes Gifford,
speaking of Williams,
observed that ‘he was...
- Gifford’s
bitter satire. At the
start of his
attack on the
group in The
Baviad (1794),
Gifford makes “Some sniv’lling
Jerningham at
fifty weep/ O’er love-lorn...
-
termed by
William Gifford the
Reuben of the Della-Cruscans, in his
satirical Baviad and Mæviad. A
blank verse tragedy by Greatheed, The
Regent was
brought out...
-
criticism in
their own time,
notably William Gifford's
savage verse satires The
Baviad (1791) and The
Maeviad (1795),
subsequent literary historians seem incapable...
-
Commission on
Historical M****cripts 14th Rep. i. 368, 378
William Gifford, The
Baviad and The Mæviad (satires), p. xi
Hannah More, Memoirs, ii. 77 "Sunday's Post"...
