Author: Myers, T.
Biography:
MYERS, T. (fl 1806)
Nelson Triumphant (1806), the only known publication of T. Myers, was one of a torrent of poetical tributes to Nelson’s great victory and death at Trafalgar in 1805, and was little noticed except by the reviewer for the British Critic, who accused the author of plagiarism from Nelson’s Tomb (1805) by William Thomas Fitzgerald (q.v.). Watkins listed Myers as (still) a “Living Author” in 1816 but is at odds with the title-page (and the review) in referring to him as “S. Myers”; this is the only work attributed to him. Not all the writers included by Watkins were in fact alive in 1816. In the absence of a first name and of better biographical evidence, it is impossible to identify him with confidence. (Watkins; British Critic 29 [1807], 427-8) HJ