Author:William Whitehead

William Whitehead
(1715–1785)

William Whitehead

Works

Plays

• The Roman Father (1750)
• Creusa, Queen of Athens (1754)
• The School for Lovers (1762)

Poetry

• On the Danger of writing in Verse (1741)
• Atys and Adrastus
• Ridicule (1743)
• Hymn to the Nymph of Bristol Spring (1751)
• The Sweepers
• Variety, a Tale for Married People
• The Goat's Beard
• Verses to the People of England
• A Charge to the Poets (1762)
• A Pathetic Apology for all Laureates, past, present, and to come
• Trip to Scotland

Collected works

• Plays and Poems (1774), in two vols.

Works about Whitehead

• "William Whitehead", in The Lives of the Poets-Laureate, by W. S. Austin and J. Ralph (1853)
• "Whitehead, William," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Whitehead, William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Whitehead, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).