Joseph Snow

Joseph Snow, who in the preface to Misanthropy (1819) describes his life as one "of almost unvaried disappointment," was secretary to the Literary Fund Society. He was a frequent contributor of reviews to the Gentleman's Magazine in the 1820s.

TEXT RECORDS:

1819Misanthropy.
1825Review of Morgan Peter Kavanagh, Wanderings of Lucan and Dinah.
1828Rosanne.
1828Sonnet to —.
1828The Last Supper. Leonardo da Vinci.

PUBLICATIONS:

Modern accomplishments. 1813.
Misanthropy, and other poems. 1819.
The hour of trial! a few stanzas hastily written. 1820.
Minor poems. 1828.
Forms of prayers ... also poems. 1831.
Sketches and minor poems. 1831.
Poems and prayers, adapted to the use of schools and families. 1831.
Prayers ... with original poems. 1835.
Light in darkness, or, Sermons in stones: churchyard thoughts in verse by Joseph Snow; with a few designs for headstones, &c. 1845.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Anglican

education not known

poet

Gentleman's Magazine
Pocket Magazine

William Jerdan
William Thomas Fitzgerald

REFERENCE:

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

Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Joseph Snow:

1.	1819  Anonymous, Review of Snow, Misanthropy; The Literary Chronicle 1 (6 November 1819) 389.
2.	1828  Anonymous, in The Literary Gazette (28 June 1828) 403.
3.	1828  Anonymous, in Review of Snow, Minor Poems; Gentleman's Magazine 98 (June 1828) 532.
4.	1830  Anonymous, "Cold Charity; or, the Chilling Secretaries" Morning Journal (18 January 1830).
5.	1852  William Jerdan, in Autobiography of William Jerdan (1852-53) 4:401-02.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Joseph Snow: