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See also:WELLS, See also:CHARLES See also:JEREMIAH (1798?–1879) , See also:English poet, was See also:born in See also:London, probably in the See also:year 1798. He was educated at Cowden See also:- CLARKE, ADAM (1762?—1832)
- CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (1787-1877)
- CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL (1769–1822)
- CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810–1888)
- CLARKE, JOHN SLEEPER (1833–1899)
- CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (1846–1881)
- CLARKE, MARY ANNE (c.1776–1852)
- CLARKE, SAMUEL (1675–1729)
- CLARKE, SIR ANDREW (1824-1902)
- CLARKE, SIR EDWARD GEORGE (1841– )
- CLARKE, THOMAS SHIELDS (1866- )
- CLARKE, WILLIAM BRANWHITE (1798-1878)
Clarke's school at See also:Edmonton, with Tom See also:Keats, the younger See also:brother of the poet, and with R. H. See also:Horne. He became acquainted with See also:John Keats, and was the friend " who sent me some See also:roses," to whom Keats wrote a See also:sonnet on the 29th of See also:June ISO:
" When, 0 Wells! thy roses came to me,
My sense with their deliciousness was spelled;
Soft voices had they, that, with See also:tender plea,
Whisper'd of See also:peace and truth and friendliness unquelled."
Unfortunately, Wells soon afterwards played a cruel See also:practical joke on the dying Tom Keats, and reappears in the See also:elder poet's See also:correspondence as " that degraded Wells." Both with Keats and See also:Reynolds, Wells was in See also:direct See also:literary emulation, and his See also:early writings were the result of this. In 1822 he published Stories after Nature—or rather, in 'the manner of See also:Boccaccio, tempered by that of See also:Leigh See also:Hunt—a curious little See also:volume of brocaded See also:prose. At the See also:close of 1823, under the See also:pseudonym of H. L. See also:Howard, appeared the Biblical See also:drama of See also:Joseph and his Brethren (dated 1824). For the next three years Wells saw See also:Hazlitt, as he said, every See also:night," but in 1827 the two men were estranged. When Hazlitt died, in See also:September 1830, Wells took Horne to see his dead friend, and afterwards raised a See also:monument to the memory of Hazlitt in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Anne's, Soho. His two books passed almost unnoticed, and although Hazlitt said that Joseph and his Brethren was " more than See also:original, aboriginal, and a See also:mere experiment in comparison with the vast things " Wells could do, he forbore to See also:review it, and even dissuaded the See also:young poet from See also:writing any more. Wells was now practising as a See also:solicitor in London, but he fancied that his See also:health was failing and proceeded to See also:South See also:Wales, where he occupied himself with See also:shooting, fishing and writing See also:poetry until 1835, when he removed to Broxbourne, in See also:Hertfordshire. In 184o he See also:left See also:England, never to set See also:foot in it again. He settled at See also:Quimper, in See also:Brittany, where he lived for some years. A See also:story called Claribel appeared in 1845, and one or two slight sketches later, but several important tragedies and a See also:great See also:deal of See also:miscellaneous See also:verse belonging to these years are lost. Wells stated in a See also:letter to Horne (See also:November 1877) that he had composed eight or ten volumes of poetry during his See also:life, but that, having in vain attempted to find a publisher for any of them, he burned the whole See also:mass of See also:MSS. at his wife's See also:death. The only See also:work he had retained was a revised See also:form of Joseph and his Brethren, which 'was praised in 1838 by See also:Wade, and again, with great warmth, by Horne, in his New Spirit of the See also:Age, in 1844. The drama was then once more forgotten, until in 1863 it was read and vehemently praised by D. G. See also:Rossetti. The See also:tide turned at last; Joseph and his Brethren became a See also:kind of See also:shibboleth—a rite of See also:initiation into the true poetic culture—but still the See also:world at large remained indifferent. Finally, however, See also:Swinburne wrote an eloquent study of it in the Fort-nightly Review in 1875, and the drama itself was reprinted in 1876. The old See also:man found it impossible at first to take his revival seriously, but he woke up at length to take a great See also:interest in the See also:matter, and between 1876 and 1878 he added various scenes, which are in the See also:possession of Mr See also:Buxton See also:Forman, who published one of them in 1895. After leaving Quimper,
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Wells went to reside at See also:Marseilles, where he held a professorial See also:chair. He died on the 17th of See also:February 1879.
From R. H. Horne, the author of See also:Orion, the See also:present writer received the following See also:account of the See also:personal See also:appearance of Wells in youth. He was See also:short and sturdy, with dark red See also:hair, a sanguine complexion, and See also:bright See also:blue eyes; he used to See also:call himself " the cub," in reference to the habitual roughness of his See also:manners, which he was able to resolve at will into the most taking sweetness and See also:good-See also:humour. Wells's wife who had been a See also:Miss Emily Jane See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, died in 1874. Their son, after his See also:father's death, achieved a notoriety which was unpoetical, although recorded in popular See also:song, for he was the once-famous " man who See also:broke the See also:bank at See also:Monte Carlo."
The famous Joseph and his Brethren, concerning which See also:criticism has recovered its self-possession, is an overgrown specimen of the pseudo-Jacobean drama in verse which was popular in ultra-poetical circles between 1820 and 183o. Its merits are those of See also:rich versification, a rather florid and voluble eloquence and a subtle See also:trick of reserve, akin to that displayed by See also:Webster and See also:Cyril See also:Tourneur in moments of impassioned See also:dialogue. Swinburne has said that there are lines in Wells " which might more naturally be mistaken, even by an See also:expert, for the work of the young See also:Shakespeare, than any to be gathered elsewhere in the See also:fields of English poetry." This may be the See also:case, but even the youngest Shakespeare would have avoided the dulness of subject-matter and the slowness of See also:evolution which impede the reader's progress through this wholly undramatic See also:play. Joseph and his Brethren, in fact, although it has been covered with eulogy by the most illustrious enthusiasts, is less a poem than an See also:odd poetical curiosity.
In 1909 a reprint was published of Joseph and his Brethren, with Swinburne's See also:essay, and reminiscences by T. See also:Watts-See also:Dunton. (E.
End of Article: WELLS, CHARLES JEREMIAH (1798?–1879)
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