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THOMAS WADE (18o5-1875)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 227 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:WADE (18o5-1875)  , See also:English poet and dramatist, was See also:born at See also:Woodbridge, See also:Suffolk, in 18o5 . He See also:early went to See also:London, where he began to publish See also:verse of considerable merit under the See also:inspiration of See also:Byron, See also:Keats and especially See also:Shelley . He wrote some plays that were produced on the London See also:stage with a certain measure of success, owing more perhaps to the acting of See also:Charles and Fanny See also:Kemble than to the merits of the dramatist . See also:Wade frequently contributed verses to the magazines, and for some years he was editor as well as See also:part-proprietor of See also:Bell's Weekly Messenger . This venture proving financially unsuccessful, he retired to See also:Jersey, where he edited the See also:British See also:Press, continuing to publish See also:poetry from See also:time to time until 1871 . He died in Jersey on the ,9th of See also:September 1875 . His wife was See also:Lucy Eager, a musician of some repute . The most notable of Wade's publications were: See also:Tasso and the Sisters (1825), a See also:volume of poems, among which " The Nuptials of See also:Juno " in particular showed rare gifts of See also:imagination, though like all Wade's See also:work deficient in sense of See also:melody and feeling for See also:artistic See also:form; Woman's Love (1828), a See also:play produced at Covent See also:Garden; The Phrenologists, a See also:farce produced at Covent Garden in 183o; The See also:Jew of Arragon, a play that was " howled from the stage " at Covent Garden in 183o owing to its exaltation of the Jew; IVIundi et cordis See also:carmine (1835), a volume of poems, many of which had previously appeared in the Monthly Repository; The Contention of See also:Death and Love, See also:Helena and The See also:Shadow Seeker—these three being published in the form of See also:pamphlets in 1837; Prothanasia and other Poems (1839) . Wade also wrote a See also:drama entitled See also:King See also:Henry II., and a See also:translation of See also:Dante's " Inferno " in the See also:metre of the See also:original, both of which remain in See also:manuscript; and a See also:series of sonnets inspired by his wife, some of which have been published . See See also:Alfred H . See also:Mills, The Poets and Poetry of the See also:Century, vol. iii . (to vols., London, 1891–1897); See also:Literary Anecdotes of the 19th Century, edited by See also:Sir W .

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Robertson See also:Nicoll and T . J . See also:Wise (2 vols., London, 1895–1896), containing a number of Wade's sonnets, a specimen of his Dante translation and a reprint of two of his verse pamphlets .

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