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George Darley

1795–1846·Wrote in English

The long nineteenth century · Anglo-Irish poetry (late 17th–19th centuries) · Co. Dublin · English

Dublin-born mathematician, critic and poet; the strange, unfinished Nepenthe (1835) is one of the odd masterpieces of the period, admired later by Tennyson and by twentieth-century modernists.

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