[280] Goldsmith's _Vicar of Wakefield_ had appeared in 1766.--T. [281] Godwin's _Caleb Williams_ was published in 1794.--T. [282] Matthew Gregory Lewis (1773-1818), familiarly known as Monk Lewis from the _Monk_, his principal novel, published in 1795.--T. [283] Mrs. Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), _née_ Ward, author of the _Mysteries of Udolpho_ (1794)--T. [284] Mrs. Anna Lætitia Barbauld (1743-1825), _née_ Aiken, author of _Evenings at Horne_, etc.--T. [285] Maria Edgeworth (1766-1849), author of _Moral Tales, Castle Rackrent, Tales of Fashionable Life_, etc., etc.--T. [286] Madame Fanny d'Arblay (1752-1840), _née_ Burney, author of _Evelina_ (1778), _Cecilia_, and an interesting Diary and Letters.--T. [287] Florio's MONTAIGNE, Booke III. chap. IX.: _Of Vanitie._--T. [288] Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) published his tragedy of _Goetz von Berlichingen_ in 1773; Sir Walter Scott's translation appeared in 1799.--T. [289] William Cowper (1731-1800), author of the _Task._--T. [290] Robert Burns (1759-1796), the Ayrshire ploughman-poet.--T. [291] Thomas Moore (1779-1852), the popular Irish poet, had published his translation of Anacreon at the time of which Chateaubriand writes. His Irish Melodies began to appear in 1807, and _Lalla Rookh_ was published in 1817.--T. [292] Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) had published his _Pleasures of Hope_ in 1799.--T. [293] Samuel Rogers (1763-1855), the banker-poet, was known at this time by the _Pleasures of Memory_, published in 1792.--T. [294] George Crabbe (1754-1832) had published the _Library_ and the _Village._--T. [295] William Wordsworth (1770-1850), Poet-Laureate (1843). The Lyrical Ballads, composed with Coleridge, whom Chateaubriand omits to mention, were published in 1798.--T. [296] Robert Southey (1774-1843), Poet-Laureate (1813). _Wat Tyler_ and _Joan of Arc_ both appeared before the close of the eighteenth century.--T. [297] James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) had not begun to write at this time.--T. [298] James Sheridan Knowles (1784-1862), author of the _Hunchback_ and other once much admired plays.--T. [299] Henry Richard Vassall Fox, third Lord Holland (1773-1840), Lord Privy Seal in the ministry of his nephew Charles James Fox (1806), and author of some translations from the Spanish poets.--T. [300] Canning was the author of a number of satirical poems, many of which appeared in the _Anti-Jacobin._--T. [301] John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 to 1829, and one of the founders of the _Quarterly Review_ (1809) and of the Athenæum Club (1824). He published occasional poems on British victories, such as Trafalgar and Talavera.--T. [302] William Mason (1724-1797), a minor poet, author of the _English Garden_ and of two tragedies, _Elfrida_ and _Caractacus._--T. [303] Dr. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), grandfather of Charles Darwin, and author of the _Botanic Garden_ and the _Zoonomia, or the Laws of Organic Life._--T.