[1] He edited the Delphin Classics, a 143-volume set of Latin works published by Abraham John Valpy at which task his editorial labors were so excessive as to induce near total blindness.
He also wrote poetry, and authored a number of tracts on the plight of England's poor and on reform of the political system.
His doctrine of benevolence advised a moral obligation to the poor, during a time when the interest in the lower classes was subsiding.
Dyer's influence represents, for Roe the answer to current historians who believe that the Romantics turned their backs on history in their search for a transcendent nature.
On rereading one of the first prints of his book, Dyer claimed that there was a significant error in reasoning contained on the first page of the preface.