Prolific Irish poet whose early promise a child prodigy went unfulfilled; after the publication of James Grant Raymond's 1806 biography he became a type of the wastrel bard.

REFERENCES TO Thomas Dermody:

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [9 December 1796] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Countess of Moira to Robert Owenson, 26 March 1800 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

Sydney Owenson to Robert Owenson, [1801?] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 28 March 1801 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 25 July 1801 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Sydney Owenson to Margaret Featherstone, 8 October 1802 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

John Herman Merivale to Francis Hodgson, [1806?] in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)

Andrew Stewart to Walter Scott, 20 January 1809 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)