‘Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets’ in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by William Howitt, first published in 1847, that features the biographical accounts of the most distinguished literary figures among the British. This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook is formatted for your e Reader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Volume 1:
Geoffrey Chaucer
Edmund Spenser
Shakespeare
Abraham Cowley
John Milton
Samuel Butler
John Dryden
Joseph Addison
John Gay
Alexander Pope
Dean Swift
James Thomson
William Shenstone
Chatterton
Thomas Gray
Oliver Goldsmith
Robert Burns
William Cowper
Mrs. Tighe
John Keats
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lord Byron
Volume 2:
George Crabbe
James Hogg
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Felicia Hemans
L. E. L.
Sir Walter Scott
Thomas Campbell
Robert Southey
Joanna Baillie
William Wordsworth
James Montgomery
Walter Savage Landor
Leigh Hunt
Samuel Rogers
Thomas Moore
Ebenezer Elliott
John Wilson
Waller Bryan Procter
Alfred Tennyson
Concluding Remarks
Circa l’autore
William Howitt (1792-1879) was a prolific English writer on history and other subjects. He married, in 1821, Mary Botham, who like himself was a Quaker and a poet. William and Mary Howitt collaborated throughout a long literary career, the first of their joint productions being The Forest Minstrels and other Poems (1821). The Howitts are remembered for their untiring efforts to provide wholesome and instructive literature. Howitt Primary Community School in Heanor, Derbyshire, is named after them.