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GEORGE DARLEY (1795-1846)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 834 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:DARLEY (1795-1846)  , Irish poet, was See also:born in See also:Dublin in 1795 . His parents, who were See also:gentle folks of See also:independent means, emigrated to See also:America, leaving the boy in See also:charge of his grandfather at See also:Springfield, Co . Dublin . He was educated at Trinity See also:College, Dublin, graduating in 182o ; but an unfortunate stammer prevented him from going into the See also:church or to the See also:bar, and he established himself in See also:London, where he published his first See also:volume of poems, the Errors of Ecstasie, in 1822, and became a See also:regular contributor to The London See also:Magazine . He was intimate with See also:Cary, the translator of See also:Dante, and with See also:Charles See also:Lamb . In 1826 he published under the name of " See also:Grey Penseval " a volume of See also:prose tales and sketches, Labour in Idleness (1826), one of which, " The Enchanted See also:Lyre," is plainly autobiographical . Sylvia, or the May See also:Queen (1827, reprint 1892), a See also:fairy See also:opera, met with no success, but about 183o,he became dramatic and See also:art critic to the See also:Athenaeum . His other See also:works are: Nepenthe (1835, reprint 1897), his most considerable poem ; introduction to the works of See also:Beaumont and See also:Fletcher (184o); with two plays, See also:Thomas a See also:Becket (184o), and Ethelstan (1841) . He died in London on the 23rd of See also:November 1846 . Selections from the Poems of See also:George See also:Darley, with an introduction by R . A . Streatfield, appeared in 1904 .

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