Author:Gilbert Wakefield

Gilbert Wakefield
(1756–1801)

Gilbert Wakefield

Works

• An Essay on Inspiration (1781)
• The Poems of Mr. Gray, with Notes (1781)
• Early Christian Writers on the Person of Christ (1784)
• The Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion (1789)
• Silva Critica (1789-95)
• An Enquiry into the Expediency and Propriety of Public or Social Worship (1791)
• Evidences of Christianity (1793) (external scan)
• Defence of Revealed Religion (1793)
• An Examination of Thomas Paine's "Age of Reason," (1794) (external scan)
• Remarks on the general orders of the Duke of York to his army, on June 7, 1794 (external scan)
• Tragœdiarum Delectus (1794), in 2 vols.
• The Spirit of Christianity compared with the Spirit of the Times (1794)
• Poetical Translations from the Ancients, 1795 (external scan)
• Reply to Thomas Paine's "Age of Reason" (1795)
• Pope's ‘Iliad and Odyssey, with Notes (1796) vol vi
• Observations on Pope, 1796 (external scan)

Translations

• First Epistle to the Thessalonians (1781)
• St. Matthew's Gospel (1782)
• Georgics (1788)
• Horace (1794)
• Moschus (1795)
• Lucretius (1796–9, 3 vols.)
• New Testament (1792)

Works about Wakefield

• Memoirs of the Life of Gilbert Wakefield, B.A. Late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge (1792), his autobiography (external scan)
• "Wakefield, Gilbert," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Wakefield, Gilbert," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Wakefield, Gilbert," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)