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Sir Henry Taylor

I lived from 1800-1886. I was from England, and am in the English category.

Sir Henry Taylor (October 18, 1800 - March 27, 1886) was an English dramatist.

Taylor was son of a gentleman farmer in County Durham. After being at sea for some months and in the Naval Stores Department, he became a clerk in the Colonial Office, and remained there for 48 years, during which he exercised considerable influence on the colonial policy of the British Empire. In 1872 he was made K.C.M.G. He wrote four tragedies — Isaac Comnenus (1827), Philip van Artevelde (1834), Edwin the Fair (1842), and St. Clement's Eve (1862); also a romantic comedy, The Virgin Widow, which he renamed A Sicilian Summer, The Eve of the Conquest and other Poems (1847). In prose he published The Statesman (1836), Notes from Life (1847), Notes from Books (1849), and an autobiography. Of all these Philip van Artevelde was perhaps the most successful. Taylor was a man of great ability and distinction, but his dramas, with many of the qualities of good poetry, lack the final touch of genius.

My poetry

  • The Eve Of The Conquest
    A cloudy night descended on the slopes
    Of Mountfield, and the scatter'd woods beyond,
    594 lines
  • A Welcome
    Once more we come with heart and hand,
    In warm and earnest greeting:
    12 lines
  • Athulf and Ethilda
    \Athulf.\ -- Appeared
    The princess with that merry child Prince Guy:
    27 lines
  • Dear Alice
    Dear Alice, through much mockery of yours
    (Impatient of my labours long and slow
    20 lines
  • Alabama
    The whole wide world is but the same,
    Tracked by those foemen, Care and Grief;
    40 lines
  • A perfect Woman
    She was a creature framed by love divine
    For mortal love to muse a life away
    23 lines

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