NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: White, Henry Kirke, 1785-1806 NRA: White Henry Kirke (1785-1806) Poet DNB: White, Henry Kirke (1785-1806), poet and essayist LBT ID: HeWhite1806 VIAF ID: 32736220 LOC ID: n80090091 | B/BAP: 1785-03-21 DIED: 1806-10-19 |
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Originally a stocking-weaver; trained for the law at Cambridge where he was a
contemporary of Byron; after his early death his poetical Remains
were edited by Robert Southey (2 vols, 1807) with a biography that made the poet
famous. | |
REFERENCES TO WORKS BY Henry Kirke White:
Clifton Grove, a Sketch in Verse, with other Poems. Found 4.
Display Records “Melancholy Hours. No. X” in Monthly Mirror. Found 4.
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The Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Notingham, late of St. John's College,
Cambridge: with an Account of his Life. Found 14.
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