Author:William Mason

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William Mason
(1724–1797)

English poet

William Mason

Works[edit]

  • "Again the day returns of holy rest"
  • Musæus, a Monody to the Memory of Mr. Pope, in Imitation of Milton's "Lycidas" (1747) (transcription project)
  • Isis, a Monologue (1749)
  • Ode on the Installation of the Duke of Newcastle as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge on 1 July 1749 (1749)
  • Elfrida: written on the model of the antient Greek Tragedy (1752)
  • Odes (1756)
  • Caractacus: written on the model of the antient Greek Tragedy (1759)
  • Elegies (1763)
  • Animadversions on the Present Government of the York Lunatic Asylum,' &c. (1772)
  • The English Garden (bk. i. 1772; bk. ii. 1777; bk. iii. 1779; bk. iv. 1782)
  • An Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers (1773)
  • An Heroic Postscript (1774)
  • Life of Gray (1774)
  • Ode to Mr. Pinchbeck, upon his newly invented Candle-snuffers, by Malcolm Macgregor, Author of the "Heroic Epistle" (1776)
  • An Epistle to Dr. Shebbeare; to which is added an Ode to Sir Fletcher Norton, by Malcolm Macgregor (1777)
  • Ode to the Naval Officers of Great Britain (1779)
  • Ode to William Pitt (1782)
  • The Dean and the Squire, a Political Eclogue by the Author of the "Heroic Epistle" (1782)
  • Collection of the Psalms of David, published `under the direction of W. Mason, by whom is prefixed a Critical and Historical Essay on Cathedral Music (1782)
  • Secular Ode (1788)

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Works about Mason[edit]

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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