Poetry of Henry Kirke White
Henry Kirke White was born in Nottingham on 21st March 1785, the son of a butcher, a trade for which his family had hoped he would follow in his father’s footsteps.
However, he was greatly attracted to book-learning. By age seven, he was giving reading lessons (unbeknownst to the rest of the family) to a family servant.
After being briefly apprenticed to a stocking-weaver, he was articled to a lawye...
Henry Kirke White was born in Nottingham on 21st March 1785, the son of a butcher, a trade for which his family had hoped he would follow in his father’s footsteps.
However, he was greatly attracted to book-learning. By age seven, he was giving reading lessons (unbeknownst to the rest of the family) to a family servant.
After being briefly apprenticed to a stocking-weaver, he was articled to a lawye...
