SOURCE: Kendall, Kenneth E. “Other Contributors to the Reflector.” In Leigh Hunt's Reflector, pp. 123-58. The Hague: Mouton, 1971.

In the following excerpt, Kendall asserts that Dyer was not the naïve man of Lamb's essays, and that his writing in the Reflector is pedantic but reveals social criticism on par with Leigh Hunt's. Dyer's major articles in that publication are listed and summarized.

Dr. Aikin and George Dyer were the oldest of the several contributors to the Reflector, both belonging to a generation older than that of Lamb and Hunt. Both were minor men of letters who were ready at all times to break into print, so that a new magazine would be welcome to them. Both were well known if not prominent, and they moved in fairly broad literary circles. Dyer was an old Bluecoat boy, a fact which gave him a common background with the other...