Capel Lofft

(1751-1824)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Lofft, Capel, 1751-1824 DNB: Lofft, Capel (1751-1824), radical editor and writer LBT ID: CaLofft1824 VIAF ID: 74961350 LOC ID: n85089569	B/BAP: 1751-11-14 DIED: 1824-05-26
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English poet, lawyer, and political reformer; he was the patron of the poet Robert Bloomfield. Charles Lamb described him as “the genius of absurdity.”
REFERENCES TO Capel Lofft: Robert Southey to Neville White, 20 December 1806 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Clairmont to William Godwin, 6 May 1808 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 8 May 1808 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Lord Byron to R. C. Dallas, 21 August 1811 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [28 December 1814] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 9 August 1815 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 10 January 1820 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter V Found 1: ¶ 3 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1811 Verse 2: p. 268a p. 268a “[Moore’s Letters and Journals of Lord Byron]” in Literary Gazette (13 February 1830) 100-01 Verse 2: p. 267b p. 267b Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XIII. 1807 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 6: The Cypher Found 1: ¶ 3 Ch 5: Criticisms Found 1: ¶ 12 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. VII 1803-05 Found 1: ¶ 9 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. III. 1788-1792 Found 1: ¶ 6 Ch. VII. 1806-1811 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter I. 1803-1805. Found 1: ¶ 6 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1814 Found 1: ¶ 5 Letters: 1815 Found 1: ¶ 7 Letters: 1820 Found 1: ¶ 5 Letters: 1822 Found 1: ¶ 1