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J.Darby vs T Hartshorn, Lea Brook Grounds, Wednesbury, Monday 8 January 1883. 5 Standing Spring Jumps. £10.
Critical reception and legacy[edit]
Despite his own efforts and the assistance in the development of his poetry by Shenstone, Lord Lyttleton and others, Woodhouse tended to be regarded as something of a curiosity in his own lifetime. He was well aware of this, as can be seen from his comments in his own final work "Crispinus". His 1788 collection of poetry was favourably reviewed by the THE GENERAL MAGAZINE AND IMPARTIAL REVIEW in 1788, where Woodhouse's poems were stated to merit a "respectable rank in the Shenstone School".
Woodhouse's Love Letters to my Wife, received a poor review in The Monthly Review, Volume 44 - his work being "deficient in those requisites which distinguish and give a fascinating charm to the genuine productions of the Muse." The Monthly review. ser.2:v.80 (1816) in its review of the excerpt of Crispinus published during declared that although Crispinus may have been a good man, whoever wrote his life and lucubations, "never was a poet".