Robert Bell (writer)
Robert Bell (16 January 1800 – 12 April 1867) was an Irish man of letters.
Life
Bell was born at Cork, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was one of the founders of the Dublin Historical Society. In 1828 he settled in London, where he edited a weekly paper, the Atlas, and until 1841 worked as a journalist. He was a director of the Royal Literary Fund, and known for his generosity to fellow men of letters.
Works
Bell's major work was his annotated edition of the English Poets (24 vols., 1854-1857; new ed., 29 vols., 1866), the works of each poet being prefaced by a memoir. For Lardner's, Cabinet Cyclopaedia he wrote History of Russia (3 vols., 1836-1838) and Lives of English Poets (2 vols., 1839).
Bell wrote also a continuation, with W. Wallace, of Sir James Mackintosh's History of England (vols. iv.-x., 1830-1840); and the fifth volume (1840) of the Lives of the British Admirals, begun by Robert Southey. Bell was a member of the Percy Society, and in 1846 the society published Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England edited by Bell.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press
External links
- Webb, Alfred (1878). "
Bell, Robert". A Compendium of Irish Biography. Dublin: M. H. Gill & son. Wikisource - Works by Robert Bell at Project Gutenberg
Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England
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