biography
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| lived:
| (1756–1826)
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| biography:
| Editor and critic, born in Ashburton, Devon, SW England, UK. Orphaned at 12, he secured education at Oxford through patronage. His early works, the Baviad (1794), and the Maeviad (1796), were satirical attacks against writers who had had an easier start in life. Gifford's editorship of the Anti-Jacobin (1797–8) gained him favour with Tory magnates, and he was the first editor of the Quarterly Review (1809–24). He possessed much satirical acerbity, but little merit as a poet, and as a critic was unduly biased. |
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