ABSTRACT
George Daniel was born in London and was ‘a miscellaneous writer and book collector’. Daniel made his mark on the period’s literary culture, as a poet, but as a drama critic. In 1823 John Cumberland published Daniel’s British Theatre with Remarks Critical and Biographical to great success. George Daniel’s review of the period’s literary culture, as the title of The Modern Dunciad suggests, is written after Pope, whom along with Milton and Dryden he reveres above all other poets. ‘Fiddlers from France, and mountebanks from Spain’, are accompanied by ‘warbling slaves’ from Italy, and the Dutch ‘Mynhers’, described by Daniel as ‘egregious knaves’.
