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WELLS, CHARLES JEREMIAH (1798?1879) , English poet, was born in London, probably in the year 1798. He was educated at Cowden Clarke's school at Edmonton, with Tom Keats, the younger brother of the poet, and with R. H. Horne. He became acquainted with John Keats, and was the friend " who sent me some roses," to whom Keats wrote a sonnet on the 29th of June ISO: " When, 0 Wells! thy roses came to me, My sense with their deliciousness was spelled; Soft voices had they, that, with tender plea, Whisper'd of peace and truth and friendliness unquelled." Unfortunately, Wells soon afterwards played a cruel practical joke on the dying Tom Keats, and reappears in the elder poet's correspondence as " that degraded Wells." Both with Keats and Reynolds, Wells was in direct literary emulation, and his early writings were the result of this. In 1822 he published Stories after Natureor rather, in 'the manner of Boccaccio, tempered by that of Leigh Hunta curious little volume of brocaded prose
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letter to Horne (November 1877) that he had composed eight or ten volumes of poetry during his life, but that, having in vain attempted to find a publisher for any of them, he burned the whole mass of MSS. at his wife's death. The only work he had retained was a revised form of Joseph and his Brethren, which 'was praised in 1838 by Wade, and again, with great warmth, by Horne, in his New Spirit of the Age, in 1844. The drama was then once more forgotten, until in 1863 it was read and vehemently praised by D. G. Rossetti. The tide turned at last; Joseph and his Brethren became a kind of shibboletha rite of initiation into the true poetic culturebut still the world at large remained indifferent. Finally, however, Swinburne wrote an eloquent study of it in the Fort-nightly Review in 1875, and the drama itself was reprinted in 1876. The old man found it impossible at first to take his revival seriously, but he woke up at length to take a great interest
It Wells went to reside at Marseilles, where he held a professorial chair. He died on the 17th of February 1879. From R. H. Horne, the author of Orion, the present writer received the following account of the personal appearance of Wells in youth. He was short and sturdy, with dark red hair , a sanguine complexion, and bright blue eyes; he used to call
The famous Joseph and his Brethren, concerning which criticism has recovered its self-possession, is an overgrown specimen of the pseudo-Jacobean drama in verse which was popular in ultra-poetical circles between 1820 and 183o. Its merits are those of rich versification, a rather florid and voluble eloquence and a subtle trick
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In 1909 a reprint was published of Joseph and his Brethren, with Swinburne's essay, and reminiscences by T. Watts-Dunton. (E. G.) End of Article: WELLS, CHARLES JEREMIAH (1798?1879) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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