George Cotterell

George Cotterell, born at Walsall in 1839, studied and practised law before entering literature as a profession. He became editor of the Yorkshire Daily Herald.

He published Poems: Old and New (1894), two privately printed volumes of verse (1870 and 1887), and a satire, The Banquet (1884). The poems here are taken from Edmund Clarence Stedman’s A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895 (1895).