Sydney Dobell — a remark

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“I read your poems with an eye for faults which is keen in proportion to friendship.”

Treating rigorous criticism as an expression of genuine friendship · Letter to Professor Nichol, 1862

About Sydney Dobell

Sydney Dobell

5 April 1824–22 August 1874

Sydney Thompson Dobell was born on 5 April 1824 at Cranbrook in Kent, into a family whose circumstances placed him close to the commercial and dissenting middle-class culture of provincial England rather than to the aristocratic literary world. His father, Thomas Dobell, was a wine merchant, and the business of…

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