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WILLIAM TAYLOR (1765-1836)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 473 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:TAYLOR (1765-1836)  , See also:English See also:man of letters, son of a See also:Norwich manufacturer, was See also:born in that See also:city on the 7th of See also:November 1765 . He belonged to the Unitarian community, and went to a school kept at See also:Palgrave, See also:Suffolk, by Rochemont See also:Barbauld, See also:husband of See also:Anna Letitia Barbauld, where See also:Frank See also:Sayers (1763-1817) was among his schoolmates . He travelled on the See also:Continent for some years to perfect himself in See also:foreign See also:languages . See also:William See also:Taylor and his See also:father were both in sympathy with the See also:French Revolution, and belonged to a " revolution society " at Norwich . In 1791 the disturbed See also:condition of affairs induced the See also:elder Taylor to See also:wind up his business, and from this See also:time William devoted himself to letters . He was an enthusiast for See also:German See also:poetry, and did See also:great service to English literature by See also:translations of See also:Burger's Lenore (1790, printed 1796), of See also:Lessing's Nathan the See also:Wise (1790, printed 1805), of See also:Goethe's Iphigenia in Tauris (1790, printed 1793), and of four of See also:Wieland's Dialogues of the Gods (1795) . He was a prolific writer of See also:review articles, in which his knowledge of foreign literature served as a useful See also:standard of See also:criticism . Much of this material was made use of in his most important See also:work, his Historic Survey of German Poetry (3 vols., 1828-30) . He also edited the See also:works of his friend Sayers with a memoir (1823) . He died at Norwich on the 5th of See also:March 1836 . See a Memoir of the See also:Life and Writings of the See also:late W . Taylor of Norwich, by See also:John See also:Warden Robberds (2 vols., 1843) ; Georg Herzfeld, William Taylor von Norwich (1897) .

Taylor is well known to readers of See also:

George See also:Borrow by the portrait of him as the " elder individual " in the 23rd See also:chapter of Lavengro .

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