Contemporary Review, September 1st, 2000
Wainewright the Poisoner. Andrew Motion. Faber and Faber. [pound]20.00. 305 pages. ISBN 0-571-19401-X.
Guards officer, artist, art critic and essayist, wit, poet, poseur and Disraelian dandy-about-town; good friend of Charles Lamb, Fuseli and William Blake, acquainted with De Quincey, Hazlitt, John Clare, Keats, and Wordsworth. That was one side of the coin of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright's life. The obverse was Wainewright the poisoner, the forger and murderer whose very name became a Victorian byword for evil.
A curious subject you might think for the Poet Laureate to select as suitable ...
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