The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Cottle, Joseph

COTTLE, Joseph, an English publisher and author, born about 1774, died in 1853. He was an early and generous friend of Coleridge and Southey, whose first poems he published while a bookseller at Bristol. He afterward wrote a volume of “Reminiscences” of those authors, poems entitled “Alfred,” “The Fall of Cambria,” and “Malvern Hills,” essays on Socinianism, and other pieces in prose and verse.—His brother, Amos Cottle, who died in 1800, translated the Icelandic Edda into English verse, but is best known by Byron's reference to his name in “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.”