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Victorian

Richard Garnett

1835–1906

Richard Garnett (1835–1906) was an English librarian, scholar, biographer and poet. He worked in the British Museum Library from 1851 and became Keeper of Printed Books in 1890; he also wrote many biographies and contributed widely to the Dictionary of National Biography.

His own verse includes Io in Egypt and other poems (1859), the sonnets and lyrics of Poems (1893) besides the tales of The Twilight of the Gods (1888) and several ballads such as the two printed here.

Poems (14)

  1. The Mermaid of Padstow
  2. The Highwayman's Ghost
  3. Fading-Leaf and Fallen-Leaf
  4. The Fair Circassian
  5. Epigram
  6. Nocturne
  7. Sonnet — Age
  8. The Island of Shadows
  9. Soulless, colorless strain, thy words are the words of wisdom
  10. On an Urn
  11. After Reading Some Ungenerous Criticisms
  12. "I hardly ever ope my lips," one cries
  13. Philosopher, whom dost thou most affect
  14. 'Tis highly rational, we can't dispute

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