John Edwards

John Edwards, the "water-poet of Derby," was the son of shoemaker of Fulneck near Leeds. He was employed as a weaver before earning his living as a liquor merchant at Derby. In 1810 Edwards met William Wordsworth, who quotes from his "All Saints Church" in the Essay on Epitaphs.

TEXT RECORDS:

1821The Tour of the Dove.

PUBLICATIONS:

All Saints Church, Derby. A Poem. 1806.
Tour of the Dove. 1821.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English

education not known

poet

Bernard Barton
James Montgomery
William Wordsworth

REFERENCE:

DNB; not NCBEL; CBEL (3rd ed).

Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors (1816); John Holland, Poets of Yorkshire (1845); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1882) 1:545; C. R. Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839 (1992).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for John Edwards:

1.	1815  Dorothy Wordsworth to Mrs. Clarkson, 16 March 1815; in Letters, ed. Knight (1807) 2:55-56.
2.	1822  Anonymous, Review of Edwards, Tour of the Dove; Imperial Magazine 4 (October 1822) 955-97.
3.	1845  John Holland, "John Edwards" Poets of Yorkshire; comprising Sketches of the Lives, and Specimens of the Writings of those Children of Song (1845) 137-38.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for John Edwards:

1.	1816  Anonymous, in Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors (1816) 106.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)

1.	1821  Charles Cotton:   John Edwards, in Tour of the Dove (1821; 1825) 53-54.
2.	1821  Francis Noel Clarke Mundy:   John Edwards, in Tour of the Dove (1821; 1825) 14, 78-80n.