"Yet sober Critics, of no vulgar note, / But such as Learning's sons are proud to quote, / The progress of Homeric verse explain, / As if their souls had lodg'd in Homer's brain."
An Essay on Epic Poetry
4 entries in LION and ESTC (1782, 1785, 1788).<br>
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First published as <u>An Essay on Epic Poetry; in Five Epistles to the Rev<sup>d</sup>. M<sup>r</sup>. Mason. With Notes</u>. (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1782). &lt;<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t1jh3tg9w">Link to Hathi Trust</a>&gt;
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Reprinted in <u>Poems and Plays, by William Hayley, Esq.</u> (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1785). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111425349&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt; <br>
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Text from new edition of <u>Poems and Plays, by William Hayley, Esq.</u> (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1788). See also William Hayley, <u>Poems and Plays, by William Hayley, Esq.</u>, vol. 3 of 6 vols. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1785). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111425349&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;