Author:William Mason

William Mason
(1724–1797)

William Mason

Works

• "Again the day returns of holy rest"
• Musæus, a Monody to the Memory of Mr. Pope, in Imitation of Milton's "Lycidas" (1747) (transcription project)
• Isis, a Monologue (1749)
• Ode on the Installation of the Duke of Newcastle as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge on 1 July 1749 (1749)
• Elfrida: written on the model of the antient Greek Tragedy (1752)
• Odes (1756)
• Caractacus: written on the model of the antient Greek Tragedy (1759)
• Elegies (1763)
• Animadversions on the Present Government of the York Lunatic Asylum,' &c. (1772)
• The English Garden (bk. i. 1772; bk. ii. 1777; bk. iii. 1779; bk. iv. 1782)
• An Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers (1773)
• An Heroic Postscript (1774)
• Life of Gray (1774)
• Ode to Mr. Pinchbeck, upon his newly invented Candle-snuffers, by Malcolm Macgregor, Author of the "Heroic Epistle" (1776)
• An Epistle to Dr. Shebbeare; to which is added an Ode to Sir Fletcher Norton, by Malcolm Macgregor (1777)
• Ode to the Naval Officers of Great Britain (1779)
• Ode to William Pitt (1782)
• The Dean and the Squire, a Political Eclogue by the Author of the "Heroic Epistle" (1782)
• Collection of the Psalms of David, published `under the direction of W. Mason, by whom is prefixed a Critical and Historical Essay on Cathedral Music (1782)
• Secular Ode (1788)

Translations

• The Art of Painting (1782) by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy [1]

Works about Mason

• "Mason, William (1724-1797)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Mason, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)