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- Thomas Medwin (20 March 1788 –2 August 1869) was an early 19th-century English writer, poet and translator.
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Thomas Medwin was an early 19th century English poet and translator, who is chiefly known for his biographies of his cousin Percy Bysshe Shelley and his recollections of his close friend Lord Byron.
Early Life more less
Thomas Medwin was born in the market town of Horsham, West Sussex on 20 March 1788, the third son of five children of Thomas Charles Medwin, a solicitor and steward and Mary Medwin (née Pilford). He was a second cousin on both his parents' sides to Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1821) who lived two miles away at Field Place, Warnham and with whom Medwin formed a childhood friendship that continued into adulthood.
He was from a prosperous rather than a wealthy family that expected their sons to work for a living and to this end he attended Syon House Academy in Isleworth between 1788 and 1804, the alma mater of Shelley from 1802—1808. Medwin related that at Syon House Shelley and he remained close friends forming a bond that was close enough for Shelley to apparently sleep walk hi
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ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.
LORD BYRON, HIS BIOGRAPHY, &c.
[Conclusion of Capt. Medwin’s letter.]
His (Lord Byron’s) dramas, highly picturesque, and full of poetry (which should be sparingly used in plays, and only by way of illustration), are failures by reason of the want of that very power of thinking for others, of giving the thoughts of others a local habitation, of making them incarnate as it were. The conspiracy in Marino Faliero (doubtless written in Romagna, during the rebellion of which Byron was one of the springs) has, for an opposite reason, all the force of truth and reality. In the somewhat whining regrets of the young Foscari, at being driven from
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Thomas Medwin
English writer, poet and translator (1788–1869)
Thomas Medwin | |
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| Born | (1788-03-20)20 March 1788 Horsham, Sussex, England |
| Died | 2 August 1869(1869-08-02) (aged 81) Horsham, Sussex, England |
| Resting place | St. Mary's Churchyard, Horsham |
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| Nationality | English |
| Education | Syon House |
| Literary movement | Romanticism |
| Notable works | Journal of the conversations of Lord Byron (1824), The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, translated into English verse 1832, The life of P. B. Shelley 2 vols. (1847) |
Thomas Medwin (20 March 1788 –2 August 1869) was an early 19th-century English writer, poet and translator. He is known chiefly for his biography of his cousin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and for published recollections of his friend, Lord Byron.
Early life
Thomas Medwin was born in the market town of Horsham, West Sussex on 20 March 1788, the third son of five children of Thomas Charles Medwin, a solicitor and steward, and Mary Medwin (née Pilford). His two older brothers John and Henry di
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