Edward Young

(1683-1765)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Young, Edward, 1683-1765 NRA: Young Edward (1683-1765) Poet and Dramatist DNB: Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765), writer LBT ID: EdYoung1765 VIAF ID: 49252592 LOC ID: n50013617	B/BAP: 1683-07-03 DIED: 1765-04-05
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English poet, author of The Complaint; or Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality (1742-44), a poem that fostered a taste for gothic literature.
REFERENCES TO Edward Young: Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [8 June 1796] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Portraits—the Author's Mother. Found 1: ¶ 25 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. XVIII. 1789 Found 1: ¶ n1 Ch I. 1800-1807 Found 1: ¶ 16 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “Review of Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries” in Quarterly Review 37 (March 1828) 402-26 Found 1: ¶ 60 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1806 Found 1: ¶ 9 Life of Byron: 1809 Found 1: ¶ 54 Life of Byron: 1814 Found 1: ¶ n1 Life of Byron: 1820 Found 2: ¶ 23 ¶ 49 Life of Byron: 1821 Found 1: ¶ n3 Life of Byron: 1824 Found 1: ¶ 116 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Moore’s Byron” in Blackwood’s Magazine 27 (February 1830) 389-420 Found 1: ¶ 68 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Moore’s Byron. Part II” in Blackwood’s Magazine 27 (March 1830) 421-54 Found 1: ¶ 67 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Lord Byron’s Character and Writings” in The Southern Review 5 (May 1830) 463-522 Found 2: ¶ 61 ¶ 91 “[Moore’s Letters and Journals of Lord Byron]” in Literary Gazette (8 January 1831) 23-25 Found 1: ¶ 15 [Charles Webb Le Bas], “Life of Lord Byron” in British Critic 4th Series 9 (April 1831) 257-324 Found 1: ¶ 67 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 2: ¶ 20 ¶ 39 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 1: Critical Glances Found 1: ¶ 8 Ch. 11: Bulwer-Lytton Verse 2: p. 190c p. 190c Ch. 12: G. P. R. James Verse 2: p. 210a p. 210a William Harness to A. G. K. L'Estrange, 31 August 1869 in Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter VII. 1811. Found 1: ¶ 11 L'Estrange, A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan), 1832-1915, Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XII. Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1796 Letters: 1823 Found 1: ¶ 2 Letters: 1824 Found 1: ¶ 2