John Hamilton Reynolds (9 September 1794[1] – 15 November 1852) was an English poet, satirist, critic, and playwright.
His mother was related to the Hamilton family, from which Reynolds received his middle name, which included the Gothic writer William Thomas Beckford.
He received favourable notice from a number of critics and poets, including Byron, whose work Reynolds had closely imitated.
Early in his poetic career, John Clare claimed to be a huge admirer of Reynolds's work, and the two met and socialised with other contributors to the London Magazine.
Together with Percy Bysshe Shelley, the two were featured by Hunt in his 1816 article on a “new school of poets”, called ‘’Young Poetry’’.