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 London, 1778, 4to. 3. ‘The Noble Cricketers,’ 4to. 4. ‘Lyric Odes to the Royal Academicians for 1782,’ 1782, 4to. 5. ‘More Lyric Odes to the Royal Academicians for 1783,’ 1783, 4to. 6. ‘Lyric Odes for 1785,’ 1785, 4to. 7. ‘The Lousiad: an Heroi-comic Poem in Five Cantos,’ 1785–95, 4to. 8. ‘Farewell Odes to Academicians,’ 1786, 4to. 9. ‘A Congratulatory Epistle to James Boswell,’ 1786, 4to. 10. ‘Bozzy and Piozzi, or the British Biographers,’ 1786, 4to; 9th edit. 1788. 11. ‘Ode upon Ode, or a Peep at St. James,’ 1787, 4to. 12. ‘Instructions to a Celebrated Laureat,’ 1787, 4to. 13. ‘An Apologetic Postscript to Ode upon Ode,’ 1787, 4to. 14. ‘Brother Peter to Brother Tom [i.e. T. Warton],’ 1788, 4to. 15. ‘Peter's Pension: a Solemn Epistle,’ 1788, 4to. 16. ‘Sir Joseph Banks and the Emperor of Morocco,’ 1788, 4to. 17. ‘Peter's Prophecy, or the President and Poet,’ 1788, 4to. 18. ‘Epistle to his Pretended Cousin Peter,’ 1788, 4to. 19. ‘Lyric Odes to the Academicians and Subjects for Painters,’ 1789, 4to. 20. ‘A Poetical Epistle to a Falling Minister [W. Pitt],’ 1789, 4to. 21. ‘Expostulatory Odes to a Great Duke and a Little Lord,’ 1789, 4to. 22. ‘A Benevolent Epistle to Sylvanus Urban,’ 1790, 4to. 23. ‘A Rowland for an Oliver,’ 1790, 4to. 24. ‘Advice to the Future Laureat,’ 1790, 4to. 25. ‘A Letter to the Most Insolent Man Alive,’ 1790, 4to. 26. ‘A Complimentary Letter to James Bruce, Esq., the Abyssinian Traveller,’ 1790, 4to. 27. ‘The Rights of Kings, or Loyal Odes to Disloyal Academicians,’ 1791, 4to. 28. ‘Odes to Mr. Paine, Author of “Rights of Man,”’ 1791, 4to. 29. ‘The Remonstrance,’ 1791, 4to. 30. ‘A Commiserating Epistle to James Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale,’ 1791, 4to. 31. ‘More Money, or Odes of Instruction to Mr. Pitt,’ 1792. 32. ‘The Tears of St. Margaret,’ 1792, 4to. 33. ‘Odes of Importance,’ 1792, 4to. 34. ‘A Pair of Lyric Epistles to Lord Macartney and his Ship,’ 1792, 4to. 35. ‘Odes to Kien Long, Emperor of China,’ 1792, 4to. 36. ‘A Poetical … Epistle to Pope,’ 1793, 4to. 37. ‘Pathetic Odes to the Duke of Richmond's Dog Thunder,’ 1794, 8vo. 38. ‘Celebration, or the Academic Procession to St. James,’ 1794, 4to. 39. ‘Hair-powder: a plaintive Epistle to Mr. Pitt,’ 1795, 4to. 40. ‘Pindariana,’ 1794, 4to. 41. ‘The Convention Bill: an Ode,’ 1795, 4to. 42. ‘The Cap: a Satiric Poem,’ 1795, 4to. 43. ‘The Royal Visit to Exeter,’ 1795. 44. ‘The Royal Tour and Weymouth Amusements,’ 1795, 4to. 45. ‘An Admirable Satire on Burke's Defence of his Pension,’ 1796, 4to. 46. ‘One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Six: a Satire,’ 1797, 4to. 47. ‘An Ode to the Livery of London,’ 1797, 4to. 48. ‘Picturesque Views with Poetical Allusions,’ 1797, fol. 49. ‘Tales of the Hoy,’ 1798, 4to. 50. ‘Nil Admirari, or a Smile at a Bishop,’ 1799, 4to. 51. ‘Lord Auckland's Triumph, or the Death of Crim. Con.,’ 1800, 4to. 52. ‘Out at last, or the Fallen Minister,’ 1801, 4to. 53. ‘Odes to the Ins and Outs,’ 1801, 4to. 54. ‘Tears and Smiles,’ 1801, 8vo. 55. ‘The Island of Innocence,’ 1802, 4to. 56. ‘Pitt and his Statue: an Epistle to the Subscribers,’ 1802, 4to. 57. ‘The Middlesex Election,’ 1802, 4to. 58. ‘The Horrors of Bribery,’ 1802, 4to. 59. ‘Great Cry and Little Wool,’ 1804, 4to. 60. ‘An Instructive Epistle to the Lord Mayor,’ 1804, 4to. 61. ‘Tristia, or the Sorrows of Peter,’ 1806, 4to. 62. ‘One more Peep at the Royal Academy,’ 1808. 63. ‘The Fall of Portugal, or the Royal Exiles: a Tragedy,’ 1808, 8vo. 64. ‘A Solemn Epistle to Mrs. Clark,’ 1809, 4to. 65. ‘Carlton House Fête, or the Disappointed Bard,’ 1811, 4to. 66. ‘An Address to be spoken at the opening of Drury Lane Theatre,’ 1813, 4to. 67. ‘Royalty Fog-bound, or the Perils of a Night,’ 1814, 8vo. 68. ‘The Regent and the King: a Poem,’ 1814, 8vo. 69. ‘A most Solemn Epistle to the Emperor of China,’ 1817, 4to.

Editions of his collected works were published—Dublin, 1788, 1 vol.; in 3 vols., Dublin, 1792, 12mo; in 4 vols., London, 1794–6, 8vo; in 5 vols., 1812, with a memoir and portrait; and selections from his works in 1824 and 1834, 12mo.

Wolcot edited in 1799 the ‘Dictionary of Painters’ of Matthew Pilkington [q. v.], 4to. He left a quantity of unpublished poems, some of which and a portion of his correspondence were sold on 17 May 1877 by Messrs. Puttick & Simpson.

Wolcot had many imitators; one, C. F. Lawler, wrote under the same name; others, under very similar names, such as ‘Peter Pindar jun.,’ ‘Peter Pindar minimus,’ ‘Peter Pindar the elder,’ ‘Peter Pindar the younger’ (Brit. Mus. Cat.)

[Annual Biography and Obituary for 1820 (the second part of this notice of Wolcot is by his nephew, Mr. Giddy); Ann. Reg. 1819, Chron. p. 115; European Mag. xii. 91; Gent. Mag. LXXXIX. i. 93, 116; Rogers's Life of Opie; Polwhele's Traditions, i. 74–80, ii. 513; Polwhele's Unsexed Females, 1800, to which is attached a short and hostile account of Wolcot; Redding's Fifty Years' Recollections, i. 256, ii. 257; Boase and Courtney's Bibliotheca Cornubiensis; Boase's Collectanea Cornubiensia; Georgian Era, iii. 378.] 

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