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See also: English poet and dramatist, was See also: born at See also: Woodbridge, See also: Suffolk, in 18o5
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He early went to See also: London, where he began to publish verse of considerable merit under the inspiration of See also: Byron, See also: Keats and especially Shelley
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He wrote some plays that were produced on the London stage with a certain measure of success, owing more perhaps to the acting of See also: Charles and Fanny Kemble than to the merits of the dramatist
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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
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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
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He died in Jersey on the ,9th of See also: September 1875
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His wife was See also: Lucy Eager, a musician of some repute
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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 melody and feeling for See also: artistic See also: form; Woman's Love (1828), a See also: play produced at Covent 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)
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Wade also wrote a drama entitled See also: King
See also: Henry II., and a
See also: translation of See also: Dante's " Inferno " in the metre of the See also: original, both of which remain in See also: manuscript; and a series of sonnets inspired by his wife, some of which have been published
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See See also: Alfred H
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Mills, The Poets and Poetry of the Century, vol. iii
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(to vols., London, 1891–1897); See also: Literary Anecdotes of the 19th Century, edited by See also: Sir W
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See also: Robertson Nicoll and T
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J
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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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