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He was the happiest of any occasional writer in his day: happy alike in the subject and in the execution of it.—I mention with pleasureAnticipation, theWreath of Fashion, &c. &c. &c. and I wish to preserve the name and remembrance of such a man as Mr. Tickell. Poets and ingenious men, who write on occasional subjects with great ability, are too often lost in the most undeserved oblivion. But we must recollect, that even such a poem as “The Absalom and Achitophel” of Dryden himself (perhaps his greatest production) was butoccasional, and writtenfor a party.⸺The Pursuits of Literature, 5th edition, 1798
He was the happiest of any occasional writer in his day: happy alike in the subject and in the execution of it.—I mention with pleasureAnticipation, theWreath of Fashion, &c. &c. &c. and I wish to preserve the name and remembrance of such a man as Mr. Tickell. Poets and ingenious men, who write on occasional subjects with great ability, are too often lost in the most undeserved oblivion. But we must recollect, that even such a poem as “The Absalom and Achitophel” of Dryden himself (perhaps his greatest production) was butoccasional, and writtenfor a party.⸺The Pursuits of Literature, 5th edition, 1798