“I am doing what in me lies to keep alive poetry with a little conscience in it.”
About Sir Aubrey de Vere
28 August 1788–5 July 1846
Sir Aubrey de Vere, born Aubrey Hunt on 28 August 1788 and dead on 5 July 1846, was an Irish poet, dramatist, landowner, magistrate, and baronet whose life joined literary aspiration to the duties and assumptions of the Anglo-Irish governing class. He is now frequently encountered as the father of the better-known…