William Julius Mickle

(1735 c.-1788)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Mickle, William Julius, 1735-1788 NRA: Mickle William Julius (1735-1788) poet DNB: Mickle, William Julius [formerly William Meikle] (1734/5-1788), poet and translator LBT ID: WiMickl1788 VIAF ID: 4940759 LOC ID: n79011212	B/BAP: 1735 DIED: 1788-10-25
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Scottish poet and essayist; his most successful work was his translation of Camoens, The Lusiad, or, The Discovery of India (1776).
REFERENCES TO William Julius Mickle: Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 16 August 1808 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 6 Robert Southey, “Memoir: Poetical Efforts,” 29 June 1824 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 7 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter V 1786-90 Found 3: ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ 6 Chapter IX 1798-99 Found 1: ¶ 23 Chapter II 1820-21 Found 1: ¶ 13 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Early Life: XIV Ch. XIV. 1808