AN ECLECTIC LIBRARY.—English Poets.

I.

William Henry Ireland.

Scribbleomania; or, The Printer’s Devil’s Polychronicon. A Sublime Poem. Edited by Anser Pen-Drag-On, Esq. London: Sherwood, Seely, and Jones, 1815. —This is a piece of satirical literary criticism much like Lowell’s later Fable for Critics. It is attributed to W. H. (William Henry) Ireland, who was, says Wikipedia, “an English forger of would-be Shakespearean documents and plays. He is less well known as a poet, writer of gothic novels and histories.” Thus this book also appears under English Poets, I.