ABSTRACT
Jacob’s several compilations on literary and legal subjects led Pope to hail him in ‘The Dunciad’ as ‘the scourge of Grammar’ and the ‘blunderbuss of Law’ (III, 149–50). His ‘Poetical Register’ (1719), devoted in its entirety to dramatic poets, was followed a year later by a companion volume devoted to non-dramatic poets. The latter volume, cast like its predecessor in the form of a comprehensive biographical dictionary, encompasses Herbert under the ensuing entry. See also above, p. 15.
Source: Jacob, from ‘An Historical Account of the Lives and Writings of our most Considerable English Poets’ (1720), pp. 73–4.
