John Wolcot [Peter Pindar]

(1738-1819)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819 NRA: Wolcot, John (1738-1819), poet and satirist, pseudonym Peter Pindar DNB: Wolcot, John [pseud. Peter Pindar] (bap. 1738, d. 1819), poet and satirist LBT ID: JoWolco1819 VIAF ID: 24590473 LOC ID: n50064284	B/BAP: 1738-05-09 DIED: 1819-01-14
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English satirist who made his reputation by ridiculing the Royal Academicians and the royal family.
REFERENCES TO John Wolcot [Peter Pindar]: Charles Lamb to Robert Southey, 20 March 1799 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 11 June 1806 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sir Richard Phillips to Sydney Owenson, 29 September 1806 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 7 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [28 April 1815] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Mr. Keats’s Poems &c. Continued” in The Examiner (6 July 1817) 428-29 Found 1: ¶ 3 Sir Walter Scott to John Gibson Lockhart, 20 July 1820 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 4 Countess of Glengall to Frances Ann Taylor, 27 August 1821 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 1: ¶ 56 The Author’s Visit to Italy. Found 1: ¶ 159 “Review of Lord Byron and some of His Contemporaries” in Literary Chronicle (2 February 1828) 72-74 Found 1: ¶ 28 Pierce Egan to Cyrus Redding, 12 April [1832] in Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Found 1: ¶ 6 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1809-10 Found 1: ¶ 32 Chapter I 1826-27 Found 1: ¶ 2 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. III” in New Monthly Magazine 80 (May 1847) 38-48 Found 1: ¶ 5 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. XI” in New Monthly Magazine 82 (January 1848) 14-20 Found 1: ¶ 26 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXII. 1817 Found 1: ¶ n1 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 19: Poets Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 5 Ch 19: Peter Pindar Found 7: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 ¶ 5 ¶ 8 ¶ n1 ¶ 1 ¶ 1 Ch. 19: James Perry Found 1: ¶ 1 Ch. 7: Quarterly Review Found 1: ¶ 11 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) William Hazlitt XI Found 1: ¶ 13 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 50 Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 8 Chapter IV. Found 1: ¶ 20 Chapter VII. Found 1: ¶ 4 Chapter VIII. Found 21: ¶ 24 ¶ 27 ¶ 30 ¶ 32 ¶ 33 ¶ 53 ¶ 54 ¶ 55 ¶ 57 ¶ 62 ¶ 63 ¶ 64 ¶ 65 ¶ 72 ¶ 74 ¶ 75 ¶ 79 ¶ 80 ¶ 81 ¶ 82 ¶ 83 Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 12 Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 101 Chapter IV. Found 1: ¶ 1 Chapter VI. Found 32: ¶ 59 ¶ 62 ¶ 65 ¶ 67 ¶ 68 ¶ 69 ¶ 71 ¶ 72 ¶ 74 ¶ 75 ¶ 76 ¶ 77 ¶ 79 ¶ 88 ¶ 94 ¶ 100 ¶ 102 ¶ 103 ¶ 107 ¶ 108 ¶ 110 ¶ 111 ¶ 112 ¶ 118 ¶ 119 ¶ 121 ¶ 122 ¶ 123 ¶ 124 ¶ 125 ¶ 129 ¶ 131 Chapter VII. Found 1: ¶ 1 Chapter II. Found 2: ¶ 32 ¶ 53 Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 36 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 5 Found 1: ¶ 10 Chapter 6 Found 1: ¶ 13 Chapter 3 Found 3: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 4 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXIII Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Prelude 1 Found 4: ¶ 11 ¶ 12 ¶ 13 ¶ 21 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XXII Found 1: ¶ 32 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. X. 1797 Found 1: ¶ 5 Ch. V. 1802-1803 Found 1: ¶ 7 Ch. VI. 1804-1806 Ch. VII. 1806-1811 Found 1: ¶ 7 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXIX. Found 1: ¶ 28 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 9: 1820-21 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch I: 1821 Found 1: ¶ n1 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1799 Found 1: ¶ 4 Letters: 1811 Found 1: ¶ 3 Letters: 1815 Found 1: ¶ 10