Dyce Alexander

Dyce, Alexander (1798-1869), critic and commentator, was born at Edinburgh, and educated at Edinburgh High School and at Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1819. He entered Orders, but abandoned them for literature. He began with Extracts from Quintus Soiyrnceus, and Specimens of English Poets. He brought out an edition of Shakspeare and other poets, and in 1831-35 an edition of Shakspeare's poems. Besides several essays, he wrote Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers.