Charles Emily, the eldest son of Edward Emily of West Clandon, Surrey, entered Trinity College Cambridge as a pensioner in 1752 (B.A. 1756, M.A. 1759) and became a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge in 1759. Coming into his inheritance in 1760 he retired to his estate, where he was major of the Surrey militia. Robert Lloyd published Emily's unusual sonnet sequence "Death" in St. James Magazine (1762). It was likely this that caught the attention of Robert Southey, who lamented "Emily and Bampfylde ... cut off in the blossom of their youth" in Life and Works of Cowper (1835-37) 2:181.
TEXT RECORDS:
1755 ca.An Ode to a Friend.
1755The Praises of Isis; a Poem.
1755[Untitled, "In those bright mansions, to the Gods above."]
1759Death. A Poem.
PUBLICATIONS:
The praises of Isis. 1755.
PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:
English
Anglican
Westminster School
Trinity College Cambridge
Bachelor of Arts
Master of Arts
College Fellow
poet
REFERENCE:
Not DNB; not NCBEL.
Pearch, Supplement to Dodsley (1768-83); Old Westminsters (1928); Venn and Venn, Alum. Cant. (1940-52); Harold Forster, Supplements to Dodsley's Collection of Poems (1980) 102.
COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Charles Emily:
| 1. | 1827 Robert Southey, in "Sayers's Works" Quarterly Review 35 (1827) 194-95. |
BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Charles Emily:
| 1. | 1783 Isaac Reed, in Pearch, Supplement to Dodsley (1783) 1:16n. |
