William Gifford

William Gifford ( born April 17 1756 in Ashburton in Devonshire, † December 31, 1826 in London) was an English poet and translator.

William Gifford ( pron. ghifförd ), orphaned early, only a cabin boy, then a shoemaker, but was in his 20th year high set by patrons in the state to study at Oxford.

Here Lord Grosvenor chose him to be the leader of his son, with the G. traveled to several countries in Europe. After his return in 1797 he gave out that the democracy -fighting magazine The Anti- Jacobin, and was rewarded for his ministerial zeal with a lucrative post.

He founded in 1809 the Quarterly Review, which he edited until 1824, and died on December 31 in 1826. G. After a history as a replica of the first satire of Persius, The Baviad (1794 ), and directed against the dramatic poets of his literary period Satire, The Maeviad (1795 ), had published, in 1803 appeared his translation of Juvenal ( an autobiographical preface, new edition, 1817, 2 vols ).

After the cessation of the Anti- Jacobin, he dealt with the older English dramatists, got a new edition of Philip Massinger's (1805 ) and Ben Jonson's works (1816 ) and prepared better issues of John Ford and James Shirley's plays, but only after his death appeared.