Richard Garnett (writer)

Richard Garnett ( born February 27, 1835 in Lichfield, Staffordshire, † April 13, 1906 ) was an English poet and writer.

Garnett was the son of Richard Garnett, a senior official at the British Museum. His school, he graduated in Bloomsbury in 1851 and got through the mediation of his father, also a job as an assistant librarian at the British Museum. The highlight of his career there, he reached in 1875 with his promotion to head of the large reading hall.

After long preparations Garnette 1881 served as editor of the General catalog of printed books and 1890-1899 he also had the the keeper of printed books held office.

The editor Edward Garnett was his son, his wife, the translator Constance Garnett his daughter in law; the writer David Garnett, his grandson.

Reception

Garnett was a gift for languages ​​and translated works from Greek, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese language. He was a long time employee of the Encyclopædia Britannica and the Dictionary of National Biography. Throughout his life he published numerous essays of literary-historical topics to reports of antiquarian book fairs in various magazines and newspapers.

Works (selection)

• The twilight of the gods and other tales. , 1888.
• Primula. Lyrical poems. In 1858.
• Io in Egypt, and other poems. In 1859.
• Idylls and epigrams. , 1869.
• Thomas Carlyle. A biography.
• John Milton. A biography.
• William Blake. A biography.

• Percy Bysshe Shelley: Relics of Shelley. 1862 ( collection of poetic fragments of the poet, which he himself had found )
• Percy Bysshe Shelley: Selection from Shelley's poems.
• Richard Garnett: Philological essays. In 1859.
• English literature. An illustrated record (along with Edmund Gosse )
• History of Italian literature.
• The age of Dryden. In 1895.

• Poems from the German. , 1862.