William Gilbert

(1763 c.-1825 c.)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Gilbert, William, 1760?-1825? DNB: Gilbert, William (1763?–c.1825), poet LBT ID: WiGilbe1825 VIAF ID: 68087476 LOC ID: n90645068	B/BAP: 1763 DIED: 1825
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Born in Antigua, he was an occultist and poet who published The Hurricane: a Theosophical and Western Eclogue (1796); he was a Bristol acquaintance of Coleridge and Southey.
REFERENCES TO William Gilbert: Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 22 September 1799 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey, “Memoir: My Mother,” [1820] in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 6 ¶ n1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Early Life: IV Found 1: ¶ n1 Ch. VI. 1799-1800