The New Student's Reference Work/Dowden, Edward

Dowden, Edward, LL. D., D. C. L., an Anglo-Irish critic, man-of-letters and professor of English literature at Trinity College, Dublin, was born at Cork, May 3, 1843, and educated at Dublin University. He was one of the commissioners of national education in Ireland. His literary industry was very great, for he was author not only of the best Life of Shelley extant, but of perhaps one of the most informing as well as critical works on Shakespeare, as to whose works he was an accomplished scholar and editor. His other works embrace a Life of Southey, and editions of Southey's, Wordsworth's and Shelley's poetical works; New Studies in Literature; and a History of French Literature. He died in Dublin, April 4, 1913.