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HENRY KIRKE WHITE (1785-1806)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 600 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:KIRKE See also:WHITE (1785-1806)  , See also:English poet, was See also:born at See also:Nottingham, the son of a See also:butcher, on the 21st of See also:March 1785 . He was destined at first for his See also:father's See also:trade, but after a See also:short See also:apprenticeship to a See also:stocking-See also:weaver, was eventually articled to a lawyer . Meanwhile he studied hard, and his See also:master offered to See also:release him from his See also:contract if he had sufficient means to go to See also:college . He received encouragement from See also:Capel See also:Lofft, the friend of See also:Robert See also:Bloomfield, and published in 1803 See also:Clifton See also:Grove, a See also:Sketch in See also:Verse, with other Poems, dedicated to Georgiana, duchess of See also:Devonshire . The See also:book was violently attacked in the Monthly See also:Review (See also:February 1804), but See also:White was in some degree compensated by a See also:kind See also:letter from Robert See also:Southey . Through the efforts of his See also:friends, he was entered as a See also:sizar at St See also:John's College, See also:Cambridge, spending a See also:year beforehand with a private See also:tutor . See also:Close application to study induced a serious illness, and fears were entertained for his sanity, but he went into See also:residence at Cambridge, with a view to taking See also:holy orders, in the autumn of 18o5 . The See also:strain of continuous study proved fatal, and he died on the 19th of See also:October 18o6 . He was buried in the See also:church of All See also:Saints, Cambridge . The genuine piety of his religious verses secured a See also:place in popular hymnology for some of his See also:hymns . Much of his fame was due to sympathy inspired by his See also:early See also:death, but it is noteworthy that See also:Byron agreed with Southey in forming a high estimate of the See also:young See also:man's promise . His Remains, with his letters and an See also:account of his See also:life, were edited ( vols., 1807-1822) by Robert Southey .

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Sir See also:Harris See also:Nicolas to his Poetical See also:Works (new ed., 1866) in the " Aldine Edition " of the See also:British poets; by H . K . Swann in the See also:volume of selections (1897) in the See also:Canterbury Poets; and by John Drinkwater to the edition in the " See also:Muses' Library." See also J . T . See also:Godfrey and J . See also:Ward, The Homes and Haunts of See also:Henry See also:Kirke White (1908) .

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