WILLIAM GIFFORD
\wˈɪli͡əm d͡ʒˈɪfəd], \wˈɪliəm dʒˈɪfəd], \w_ˈɪ_l_iə_m dʒ_ˈɪ_f_ə_d]\
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An English satirical poet, translator, and critic; born at Ashburton, Devonshire, April 1756; died in London, Dec. 31, 1826. His "Baviad" (1791), based on Juvenal's first satire, and his "Maeviad" (1795), founded upon Horace, both aimed at the Della Crusca poetlings, gave him an authoritative position in the literary world. He edited the Anti-Jacobin for a time; but his supreme later position was as editor of the Quarterly Review, the great Tory organ, which made him a power in politics as well as letters. He probably wrote the famous review of Keats's "Endymion", inaccurately supposed to have killed that poet.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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