The “Pope” of Holland House
John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 5 February 1822
Feb. 5, 1822.
The review of
Scott’s novels is by a forward, clever young man from Oxford,
named Senior,1 a
fellow of Magdalen, and a law pupil some little time since of
Duckworth. He also reviewed the Agricultural Report in the
preceding number.
Walter Scott has another novel in the press
called “Nigel,”
written to illustrate the manners of the seventeenth century. The scene, I believe,
is laid in Scotland; and the story has some connection with that of
Heriot, the goldsmith of James
I., who founded Heriot’s Hospital at Edinburgh.
An anonymous poem in blank verse of the Lake
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school, entitled “Italy,” is just published, which is
generally attributed to Rogers. It would not
otherwise have much circulation, for it has little interest, though it contains
some agreeable passages.
Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)
English poet, banker, and aesthete, author of the ever-popular
Pleasures of Memory (1792),
Columbus (1810),
Jaqueline (1814), and
Italy (1822-28).
Nassau William Senior (1790-1864)
Professor of political economy at Oxford (1825-30) and author of
Outline of the Science of Political Economy (1836). He contributed to the
Quarterly Review and
Edinburgh Review.
Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)
Italy, a Poem. 2 vols (London: John Murray, 1823-1828). In 1828 the poem was revised and expanded into two parts; in 1830 it was elaborately
illustrated with engravings after paintings by J. M. W. Turner and Thomas Stothard.
