English Literature, 19th cent.: Biographies

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Clarke, Charles Cowden-

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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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Charles Cowden Clarke

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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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