Richard Henry Wilde (24 September 1789-10 September 1847), poet, politician, and translator, was born in Dublin, Ireland. The son of a merchant father and a socially prominent mother, Wilde saw little...
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Richard Henry Wilde is remembered today chiefly for one poem, "The Lament of the Captive," often called "My Life is Like the Summer Rose." Writing in the tradition of southern romanticism, he compose...
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Richard Henry Wilde
