William Gifford (1756-1826) Poet, scholar, and editor who began as a shoemaker's apprentice; after Oxford he published The Baviad (1794), The Maeviad (1795), and The Satires of Juvenal translated (1802) before becoming the founding editor of the Quarterly Review (1809-24).

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English essayist and literary critic; author of Characters of Shakespeare's Plays (1817), Lectures on the English Poets (1818), and The Spirit of the Age (1825).

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) A Letter to William Gifford, Esq. from William Hazlitt, Esq.. (London: John Miller, 1819). Written in response to a criticism on The Round Table in the Quarterly Review.