{\b Aubrey de Vere}.

{\b Date of Birth}.: 1814

{\b Date of Death}.: 1902

{\b Works}.

Poet, dramatist and essayist. De Vere's important poems include his 'If Women 
Could be Fair and Yet Not Fond', 'The Dignity of Sorrow', 'The New Race', and 
the generically titled 'Song'. His various published works include the early 
The Waldenses and Other Poems (1842), the political essay addressing the 
question of British soveriegnty in Ireland English Misrule and Irish Misdeed 
(1848) and The Legends of St Patrick (1872), as well as his  Critical Essays 
(1887-89), the Recollections (1897) and a number of dramatic works.

{\b Featured Works}.

'If Women Could Be Fair and Yet Not Fond', 'The Dignity of Sorrow', 'The New 
Race', 'Plorans Ploravit', 'Song'.

{\b General Comment}.

De Vere, born the son of another poet, Sir Aubrey de Vere, was educated at 
Trinity College, Dublin. His poetic influences, as was also the case with his 
notable poetic-friends, were numerous. The former include the English Romantic 
poets Coleridge and Wordsworth; the latter, Tennyson, Robert Browning and R.H. 
Hutton. 

In 1851, just three years after the publication of his English Misrule and 
Irish Misdeed, an essay generally sympathetic to the Irish cause, he converted 
to Roman Catholicism. He was to continue to write in numerous genres and to 
publish consistently until the time of his death in 1902. Two years after his 
death a biographical Memoir for De Vere was published by Wilfrid Ward.