Sidney Colvin (1845–1927)
Author of Keats
About the Author
Image credit: George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-38115)
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-38115)
Works by Sidney Colvin
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- Birthdate
- 1845-06-18
- Date of death
- 1927
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- England
UK - Relationships
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Short biography
- Colvin was knighted in 1911. Below is the report on New Years Honours from The Times of London (page 10, col B; January 02, 1911; Issue 39471):
"Sidney Colvin, Esq., D.Litt
Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum since 1884 and member of many learned bodies. Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge from 1873 to 1895, author of several publications on literature and the fine arts and contributor to the "Encyclopædia Britannica" and "Dictionary of National Biography."
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The Life of John Keats by Sir Sidney Colvin
Colvin was one of the first biographers of John Keats (Amy Lowell was the other: it was a race between the two to see who could publish first). The resultant book is extraordinarily good. Colvin made full use of the somewhat limited material which was then available for reference, and has produced a very informative and eminently readable biography. He quotes extensively from Keats' writings,and examines his "life, poetry, friends, death and afterfame" with sympathy. There are some errors, not present in other, more modern biographies, as a result of some papers, etc., unavailable to Colvin now having become accessible. Despite this, Colvin remains my favourite of the many biographers of the poet.… (more)
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