Author: Hildreth, William
Biography:
HILDRETH, William (fl 1799)
Despite his relatively distinctive name, no reliable information has been found about Hildreth. He might have been a Yorkshireman: births, marriages, and deaths of Hildreths in the period are often connected to Yorkshire. But he did not publish his only known work, one among many poems written on the occasion of Nelson’s victory at the Battle of the Nile in 1798, in the North and since no extant copy is recorded, there is no internal evidence to draw on. A sarcastic review in the Analytical Review will not have encouraged him to try again. (Analytical Review 29 [1799] 91-2)
Other Names:
- W. Hildreth
Books written (1):
[London]: Hookham, 1799