Author:William Gifford

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William Gifford (1756–1826)

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British journalist and writer; editor of the Quarterly Review

William Gifford

Works

• The Baviad: A Paraphrastic Imitation of the First Satire of Persius (1791)
• Epistle to Peter Pindar (1800)
• The Baviad, and Mæviad (1811, 8th edition)
• The plays of Philip Massinger, with notes critical and explanatory {1805), in 4 vols.
• The works of Ben Jonson (1816), in 9 vols.
• The dramatic works of John Ford (1827), in 2 vols.

Translations

• The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (1802)

Contributions to

• The dramatic works and poems of James Shirley, now first collected, by the late William Gifford esq., and additional notes, and some account of Shirley and his writings, by the rev. Alexander Dyce (1833)

Works about Gifford

• "Gifford, William (1756-1826)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885-1900) in 63 vols.
• "Gifford, William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Gifford, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "William Gifford" in Devonshire Characters and Strange Events (1908), by Sabine Baring-Gould
• "Mr. Gifford," in The Spirit of the Age (pp. 279−302), London: Henry Colburn (1825)