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Henry Kirke White

 

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Henry Kirke White : To the Herb Rosemary

Duncan Wu identifies poem transcribed in Wordsworth Commonplace Book and opening 'Sweet scented flow'r! who'rt wont to bloom / On January's front severe ... ' as Henry Kirke White, "To the herb Rosemary".

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family     Manuscript: Unknown

  

Henry Kirke White : ["literary remains"]

Southey describes arrival of 'literary remains' of Henry Kirke White at Greta Hall in his preface to The Remains of Kirke White, of Nottingham (2 vols, 1807): 'Mr. Coleridge was present when I opened them, and was, as well as myself, equally affected and astonished at the proofs of industry which they displayed ... There were papers upon law, upon electricity, upon chemistry, upon the Latin and Greek languages ... upon history, chronology, divinity, the fathers, &c ... His poems were numerous.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Henry Kirke White : ["literary remains"]

Southey describes arrival of "literary remains" of Henry Kirke White at Greta Hall in his preface to The Remains of Kirke White, of Nottingham (2 vols, 1807): 'Mr. Coleridge was present when I opened them, and was, as well as myself, equally affected and astonished at the proofs of industry which they displayed ... There were papers upon law, upon electricity, upon chemistry, upon the Latin and Greek languages ... upon history, chronology, divinity, the fathers, &c ... His poems were numerous.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Henry Kirke White : The Remains of Henry Kirke White

'Both John Harris and Mary Smith read the "Remains of Henry Kirke White" "with great delight", and Thomas Carter actually saved up a guinea to buy the book. It was, he said, "a large sum for one like myself to spend at one time in buying books: yet I had good reason to be satisfied; for the work was useful to me in the way of strengthening and confirming my habits of reading and observation".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Harris      Print: Book

  

Henry Kirke White : The Remains of Henry Kirke White

'Both John Harris and Mary Smith read the "Remains of Henry Kirke White" "with great delight", and Thomas Carter actually saved up a guinea to buy the book. It was, he said, "a large sum for one like myself to spend at one time in buying books: yet I had good reason to be satisfied; for the work was useful to me in the way of strengthening and confirming my habits of reading and observation".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Smith      Print: Book

  

Henry Kirke White : The Remains of Henry Kirke White

'Both John Harris and Mary Smith read the "Remains of Henry Kirke White" "with great delight", and Thomas Carter actually saved up a guinea to buy the book. It was, he said, "a large sum for one like myself to spend at one time in buying books: yet I had good reason to be satisfied; for the work was useful to me in the way of strengthening and confirming my habits of reading and observation".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter      Print: Book

 

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