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Croker, John Wilson

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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Date: 20030101
Author:MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER

Croker, John Wilson (1780–1857), secretary to the admiralty, and a prominent Tory politician. He was a regular contributor to the Quarterly Review , in which he made plain his Tory and Anglican stance. He became notorious for his criticism of Keats's Endymion in 1818. Shelley (in his Preface to Adonais ) and Byron (in his jingle ‘Who killed John Keats?’) established the belief that Croker's review hastened the death of the poet. Croker was an expert on the 18th cent. His books include An Intercepted Letter from Canton (1804), a satire on Dublin society; a reliable ...

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