Winthrop Mackworth Praed was born in London on 28 July 1802 and died there on 15 July 1839, only thirteen days short of his thirty-seventh birthday. His short life encompassed several identities that Victorian readers often preferred to keep distinct: he was a gifted schoolboy journalist, a prize-winning Cambridge classicist, a lawyer, a Conservative politician, a public speaker of exceptional brilliance, and one of…
“I should certainly refuse to occupy any post in which I should be expected to place myself in personal collision with any man.”
Neighbourhood:
Georgian Poets, Light Verse Poets, Romantic Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Longing, Peace
Francis Sylvester Mahony was born in Cork, Ireland, on 31 December 1805, and died in Paris on 18 May 1866. He is remembered under the name “Father Prout,” the comic clerical persona through which he produced some of the most ingenious literary journalism of the nineteenth century. Yet the witty priest of Watergrasshill, the supposed author of multilingual songs, mock-antiquarian discoveries, and extravagant literary…
“a rare combination of the Teian lyre and the Irish bagpipe; of the Ionian dialect, blending harmoniously with the Cork brogue; an Irish potato seasoned with Attic salt.”
Neighbourhood:
Irish Poets, Light Verse Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Joy
