Little appears to be known of Joseph Cockfield, a Quaker poet of independent means who took an interest in botany and corresponded with William Shenstone, John Hoole, John Langhorne, and John Scott of Amwell. After the death of his wife, Scott retired for a time to Cockfield's house at Upton.
TEXT RECORDS:
1761Ode to Health.
PUBLICATIONS:
PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:
English
Quaker
Dissenter
Education not known
poet
Christian Magazine
Gentleman's Magazine
Rev. William Dodd
John Hoole
Rev. Richard Jago
Rev. John Langhorne
Rev. James Merrick
John Scott of Amwell
William Shenstone
REFERENCE:
Not DNB; not NCBEL.
Pearch, Supplement to Dodsley's Collection (1768-83); Letters in John Nichols, in Illustrations of the Literary History of the XVIII Century (1817-58) 5:753-808; Joseph Smith, A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends' Books (1867); Ian A. Gordon, in Shenstone's Miscellany (1952).
COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Joseph Cockfield:
1. | 1770 ca. John Scott of Amwell, "Ode XII. To a Friend" Poetical Works (1782) 198-200. |
BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Joseph Cockfield:
1. | 1828 John Nichols, in Illustrations of the Literary History of the XVIII Century (1817-58) 5:753n. |
2. | 1867 Joseph Smith, in A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends' Books (1867) 1:438. |
AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)