Eaton Stannard Barrett


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Sections:  Biography    Criticism    Bibliography


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(Born: 1785 or 1786 - Died: March 20, 1820)

Irish author, novelist and satirical poet. He was born in Cork, Ireland. He died in Glamorganshire, Wales, of tuberculosis. He attended Trinity College, in Dublin, where he graduated with an A. B. about 1805. Moving to London, he briefly attempted to study law, but seems to have abandoned the effort very quickly. He later published under various pseudonuyms, including “Polypus,” “Cervantès Hogg,” and “Scrutator.” His first satirical poem, “All the Talents,” was published in 1807. His book The Heroine: of Adventures of Cherubina was first published in 1815.

No portrait has been identified.

 

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  • Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
  • Read, Charles A., “Eaton Stannard Barrett,” The Cabinet of Irish Literature, London: Blackie & Son, 1880, vol. I, p. 172.
  • Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.

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