Robert Merry [Della Crusca]

(1755-1798)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Merry, Robert, 1755-1798 NRA: Merry Robert (1755-1798) Dilettante DNB: Merry, Robert (1755-1798), poet LBT ID: RoMerry1798 VIAF ID: 54516009 LOC ID: n83122645	B/BAP: 1755-04 DIED: 1798-12-24
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Della Cruscan poet and playwright who contributed to The Florence Miscellany (1785) and to The World; author of Diversity: a Poem by Della Crusca (1788) and The Pains of Memory (1796).
REFERENCES TO Robert Merry [Della Crusca]: Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 23 October 1795 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 6 John King to William Godwin, 26 January 1796 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 26 June 1796 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 7 William Cobbett to William Gifford, 29 October 1797 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Lord Byron to John Murray, 4 June 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 “The Three Asses.—Mr. Gifford” in The Examiner (6 January 1822) 4 Verse 2: p. p. Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1817 Life of Byron: 1820 Found 1: ¶ 20 “[Moore’s Life of Lord Byron]” in The Edinburgh Literary Journal (8 January 1831) 19-23 Found 1: ¶ 41 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 1: ¶ 17 Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Moore's Life of Lord Byron” in Edinburgh Review 53 (June 1831) 544-572 Found 1: ¶ 42 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. III. 1794-95 Ch. IV. 1796 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter II. Found 3: ¶ 134 ¶ 135 ¶ 140 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IV. 1793 Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Ch. V. 1783-1794 Found 1: ¶ 56 Ch. VI. 1794-1796 Found 1: ¶ 20 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter VI. Found 2: ¶ 37 ¶ n1 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 6: 1817-19 Found 1: ¶ 11 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1815 Found 1: ¶ 2