John Edmund Reade, born at Broadwell, Gloucestershire, was a grandson of Sir John Hill (d. 1837) and Sir John Reade, baronet. He attended a school at Doulting Sheepslate, near Shepton Mallet. The poet resided at Bath and the west of England, with long excursions abroad. Reade was a prolific and apparently popular poet much given to plagiarism. His collected poems went into a fourth edition in 1865.
TEXT RECORDS:
1827The Bard.
1827To the West Wind.
1827Twilight.
1829Stanzas.
PUBLICATIONS:
The broken heart and other poems. 1825.
Sibyl leaves; to which is added A vision of eternity. 1827.
Cain the wanderer: a vision of heaven: darkness and other poems. 1829.
Italy a poem in six parts, with historical and classical notes. 1838.
The deluge: a drama, in twelve scenes. 1839.
Cataline, or the Roman conspiracy: an historical drama. 1839.
The drama of life. 1840.
A record of the Pyramids, a drama. 1842.
Sacred poems from subjects in the Old Testament. 1843.
Prose from the south. 2 vols, 1846.
Revelations of Life: and other poems. 1849.
Poetical works. 2 vols, 1852; 4 vols, 1857.
Man in Paradise; a poem in six books. 1856.
The light of other days. 3 vols, 1858.
Wait and hope. 3 vols, 1859.
Saturday Sterne. 3 vols, 1862.
The laureate wreath and other poems. 1863.
Memnon and other poems. 1868.
PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:
English
Anglican
privately educated
poet
novelist
dramatist
REFERENCE:
DNB; CBEL (3rd ed).
Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); Men of the Times (1868) 676; obituary in Illustrated London News (8 Oct. 1870) 367; Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature 3rd ed. (1876); Frederic Boase, in Modern English Biography (1892-1921).
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BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for John Edmund Reade:
| 1. | 1876 Robert Carruthers, in Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature, 3rd ed. (1876; 1879) 7:45-46. |
| 2. | 1901 Frederic Boase, Modern English Biography (1892-1921) 3:66. |
