RA Collection: People and Organisations
Poet, dramatist, biographer. Friend and advisor of the poet Cowper and painters Joseph Wright of Derby, George Romney and William Blake. Biographer of Milton, Cowper, Romney. Father of sculptor Thomas Alphonso Hayley (1780-1800).
Born: 9 November 1745
Died: 12 November 1820
William Hayley
The Life Of George Romney, Esq. - [Epigraphs] - By William Hayley, Esq. - - London. -: 1809.
07/1285
William Hayley
The triumphs of temper a poem in six cantos by William Hayley, Esq. - London: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
11/4133
John Milton
Latin and Italian poems of Milton : translated into English verse, and a fragment of a commentary on Paradise lost - London: 1808
12/2546