Henry Kirke White, a butcher’s son from Nottingham, won a place at Cambridge through his talent and died there in 1806, aged twenty-one. This edition gathers his sonnets, ballads, songs and hymns, the long poem Clifton Grove, Time and other pieces, together with tributes from other poets and a memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas.
Poems that Southey championed and Byron mourned, for readers of the early Romantic period. Download the free EPUB.