“If I fail in that attempt I shall not fret about it; others will do it later—what I have aimed at doing—and will probably do it better.”
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…