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Charles Cowden Clarke 1787-1877, English lecturer and author. He was a close friend of Keats, who was a pupil of Clarke's father. Clarke's lectures on Shakespeare were published as Shakespeare Characters (1863). He and his wife, Mary Victoria (Novello) Cowden Clarke, 1809-98, wrote Recollections of Writers (1878), and she compiled The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare (1844-45).

Bibliography: See study by R. D. Altick (1948, repr. 1973).

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Clarke, Charles Cowden- (1787–1877), the son of Keats's schoolmaster and a friend of the poet. With his wife, Mary Victoria Cowden-Clarke (1809–98; author of The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare, 1844–5), he produced editions of Shakespeare, G. Herbert and other poets, and they wrote Recollections of Writers (1878), a collection of reminiscences of their close friends Keats, Charles and Mary Lamb, Leigh Hunt, Douglas Jerrold, and Dickens.

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