Henry Taylor (dramatist)

Sir Henry Taylor ( born October 18, 1800 Bishop Middleham, Durham, † March 27 1886 in Bournemouth ) was an English dramatist, poet and writer of essays. He was charged for his services to the British Empire in his actual profession as a high official in the British Colonial Office in 1872 by Queen Victoria to the peerage ( Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George ).

Life

Although his father was a wealthy farmer, Henry Taylor went first for a few months at sea and worked in the shipping office of the Royal Navy to apply from 1824 to 1872 a long and highly influential career in the administration of the British Empire and in particular India.

Nevertheless, he found time to write several verse dramas, and emerge as a writer of comedies, poems, and essays. The though hardly applicable to the stages as a success tragedy Philip van Artevelde applies to many critics due to the good character studies as his best work. Theme of the play is the struggle for independence of Flanders against the French supremacy in the 14th century and its governor Philip Van Arte Velde, who was as popular leaders in the battle of Roosebeke on 27 November 1382.

Taylor was regarded by his contemporaries as a playwright with great qualities, whose poetry was one of the best works of the 19th century, but lacked the final step to Genius.

Works

  • Isaac Comnenus, tragedy, 1827
  • Philip van Artevelde, Tragedy, 1834 ( Philip Van Arte Velde 's death. A drama by Henry Taylor. Translated from English by A. Heimann. Leipzig 1852)
  • The Statesman, Essay 1836
  • Edwin the Fair, Drama 1842
  • The Eve of the Conquest, poem 1847
  • Notes from Life, Essays, 1847
  • Notes from Books, essays, 1849
  • The Virgin Widow, Comedy, 1850 ( under the title An Sicilian Summer )
  • St. Clement 's Eve, drama, 1862
  • A Welcome, poem 1863
  • Autobiography, II 1885
  • Works, 5 volumes, 1877f ..;
  • Correspondence, ed. E. Dowden, 1888.
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