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Hayley, William 1745-1820
English poet and writer

He was born in Chichester, Sussex. He became a popular writer, although his most ambitious works, The Triumphs of Temper (1781) and The Triumphs of Music (1804), were ridiculed by Byron. William Blake illustrated his Ballads founded on Anecdotes of Animals (1805). A prolific author, he also wrote essays, plays, and biographies of John Milton, George Romney and his friend William Cowper.

Bibliography: W T Le Viness, The Life and Work of William Hayley (1945)