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Bewick Memoir Sketches Friends Critics and His Life
The memoir paints Bewick through lively portraits of Haydon Wilkie and Wordsworth, noting his social wit and nervous temperament. It recounts his Melrose mischance leading to links with Scott and Abbotsford, his travels, and eventual death in 1866 at seventy two. The work highlights his literary ties, portrait work, and esteem from Goethe and Keats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haydon
Martin
David Wilkie
Adonis
Allan Cunningham
Wordsworths
Bewick
Hazlitt
Melrose
Walter Scott
Abbotsford
Reptt
Walter
Scotland
Ireland
Italy
Scott
Hogg
Wordsworth
Goethe
Wilkie
Calcott
Keats