{\b Samuel Rogers}.

{\b Date of Birth}.: 30 July 1763

{\b Date of Death}.: 18 December 1855

{\b Works}.

An Ode to Superstition  (1786), The Pleasures of Memory  (1792), An Epistle to 
a Friend  (1798), Voyage of Columbus  (1812), Jacqueline  (1814), Italy  
(1822-28).

{\b Featured Works}.

'A Wish', 'The Sleeping Beauty'.

{\b General Comment}.

A poet, Samuel Rogers was born in Stoke-Newington, the son of a banker. He was 
privately educated and entered his father's bank as an apprentice. His father 
died in 1784 and Rogers was taken into partnership. He became head of the firm 
in 1793. He was a generous patron of artists and men of letters. He held 
famous breakfasts for celebrities from all walks of life.

In 1781 he began contributing essays to the Gentleman's Magazine . His 
reputation as a poet rests largely on The Pleasure of Memory  which he 
published in 1792. A poem to Richard Sharp, An Epistle to a Friend, followed 
in 1798. Jacqueline  (1814) owes much to Byron's Lara . Rogers was offered the 
poet laureatship on the death of William Wordsworth but declined it. He is not 
well remembered today for his poetry, but rather for a few scathing remarks on 
other people.