Barry Cornwall — a remark

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“She it was who first taught me to know him and to love him, and led eventually to my wondering admiration for the greatest genius that the world has ever produced.”

Remembering the person who awakened his lifelong love of Shakespeare · Autobiographical fragment, Chapter II, on Shakespeare (published posthumously, 1877)

About Barry Cornwall

Barry Cornwall

21 November 1787–5 October 1874

Bryan Waller Procter, known to generations of readers by the literary name Barry Cornwall, was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, on 21 November 1787, and died in London on 5 October 1874. He belonged to that broad, fascinating company of early nineteenth-century writers who stood close to the great Romantic generation without…

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