Sydney Thompson Dobell
1824–74
Poet and literary scholar. Worked in his father’s Gloucestershire wine business, and published poems in the ‘Spasmodic’ school, which was criticised for excess of metaphor and extravagance of language. Delivered a three-hour lecture ‘The nature of poetry’ to the Edinburgh Philosophical Society in 1857. His poems reflected his deep religious convictions. A supporter of rights for women and the co-operative system of private enterprise.
Source
EB, ODNB.
Bibliography
EB: The Encyclopædia Britannica. A dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information. 11th edition. 29 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1910–11.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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