Thomas Jefferson Hogg (24 May 1792 – 27 August 1862) was a British biographer . Events 1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. 1276 - Magnus Ladulås is crowned Year 1792 ( MDCCXCII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Events 479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan Year 1862 was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Monday The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Biographers are Authors who write an account of another person's life while autobiographers are authors who write their own Biography.
The son of John Hogg, a country gentleman of Durham, he was educated at Durham Grammar School, and University College, Oxford, where he made the acquaintance of Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose lifelong friend and biographer he became. Durham (ˈdʌrəm in RP, locally ˈdʏrəm is a small city and main settlement of the City of Durham district of County Durham, England University College (in full the The Master and Fellows of the College of the Great Hall of the University of Oxford, colloquially referred to as Univ) is one of Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4 1792 – July 8 1822 ˈpɝːsɪ ˈbɪʃ ˈʃɛlɪ was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among Associated with Shelley in the famous pamphlet, The Necessity of Atheism, he shared in the expulsion from the University which it entailed, and embarked on a legal career, being called to the Bar in 1817. A pamphlet is an unbound Booklet (that is without a hard cover or binding) The Necessity of Atheism is a treatise on Atheism by Percy Bysshe Shelley, published anonymously in 1811 while he was a student at University College Year 1817 ( MDCCCXVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Shelley, who did not believe in monogamy, tried to get Mary Shelley sexually involved with Hogg, but she refused. Mary Shelley ( Née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August
Hogg's 1832 contribution to Bulwer Lytton's New Monthly Magazine his Reminiscences of Shelley, was highly regarded. Events Thomas Jefferson Hogg, a friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley, contributed to Bulwer Lytton's New Monthly Magazine his "Reminiscences Bulwer-Lytton is a surname and may refer to Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1st Baron Lytton (1803–1873 novelist and politician Rosina Bulwer Lytton As a result, he was commissioned to write a biography of the poet, of which he completed two volumes, but in such a way that the material with which he had been entrusted was withdrawn. A biography (from the Greek words bíos (βίος meaning "life" and gráphein (γράφειν meaning "to write" is an account A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" This work is probably unique in the annals of biography. It gives a vivid and credible picture of Shelley, but shows no true appreciation of him as a poet, and reflects with at least equal prominence the humorously eccentric personality of the author, which makes it unusually entertaining. A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" Other works by Hogg were Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff, and a book of travels, Two Hundred and Nine Days (1827). He married the widow of Edward Ellerker Williams, Shelley's friend, who was drowned along with him. Edward Ellerker Williams ( April 22, 1793 - July 8, 1822) was a Bengal army officer who became friends with Percy Bysshe Shelley
This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature is a collection of biographies of writers by John William Cousin (1849-1910 published in 1910 London, J. M. Dent & sons; New York, E. P. Dutton.
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