Henry Sewell Stokes
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Henry Sewell Stokes was a British
poet.
The Cornish poet Stokes was a schoolfellow of Charles Dickens
; later literary friends included Tennyson
and Robert Stephen Hawker
. His great nephew, Sewell Stokes
, was a novelist, biographer and playwright.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
poet.
The Cornish poet Stokes was a schoolfellow of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...
; later literary friends included Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language....
and Robert Stephen Hawker
Robert Stephen Hawker
Robert Stephen Hawker was an Anglican priest, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall and reputed eccentric. He is best known as the writer of The Song of the Western Men with its chorus line of And shall Trelawny die? / Here's twenty thousand Cornish men / will know the reason why!, which he published...
. His great nephew, Sewell Stokes
Sewell Stokes
Francis Martin Sewell Stokes was an English novelist, biographer, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and prison visitor. He collaborated on a number of occasions with his brother, Leslie Stokes, an actor and later in life a BBC radio producer, with whom he shared a flat for many years...
, was a novelist, biographer and playwright.
Works
- Lines in memory of Thomas Simon Bolitho. Privately printed, Bodmin], 1887.
- The Chantry Owl. London, Longmans, 1881.
- The Gate Of Heaven The Plaint Of MorwenstowMorwenstowthumb|Parish Church of St Morwenna and St John the Baptist, MorwenstowMorwenstow is a civil parish and hamlet in north Cornwall, United Kingdom. The hamlet is situated near the coast approximately six miles north of Bude....
And Other Verses. Liddell & Son BodminBodminBodmin is a civil parish and major town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated in the centre of the county southwest of Bodmin Moor.The extent of the civil parish corresponds fairly closely to that of the town so is mostly urban in character...
, 1876. - Echoes of the War and other poems. Heard and Sons, Truro, 1855. includes The Alliance, the Parting, the Expedition, the Battle of Alma, The Marshall's Death, After the Battle, The Dirge, The Siege, Balaklava, The Nurses, Who are the Brave, Inkerman, Widows and Orphans, a Lament for Eliot, Christmas Night.
- The Vale of Lanherne and other poems. London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853. Illustrated by James George PhilpJames George PhilpJames George Philp , of Falmouth, Cornwall, was a landscape and coastal painter.Most of his subjects were found in Devon and Cornwall. He exhibited from 1848 to 1885 and lived in Falmouth....
. - The Lay of the Desert. London, Hurst, chance, 1830.
- The Song of Albion. London, Cochrane, 1831.
- A lament from Cornwall on the death of Princess Alice, Publisher: Liddell and Son - 1878
- Rhymes from Cornwall, Publisher: J.C. Hotten - 1871
- RestormelRestormelRestormel was a borough of Cornwall, United Kingdom, one of the six administrative divisions that made up the county. Its council was based in St Austell . Other towns included Newquay....
: A legend of Piers GavestonPiers GavestonPiers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall was an English nobleman of Gascon origin, and the favourite of King Edward II of England. At a young age he made a good impression on King Edward I of England, and was assigned to the household of the King's son, Edward of Carnarvon...
. The patriot priest, and other verses. Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co - 1875