John Poole

(1786-1872)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Poole, John, 1786?-1872 NRA: Poole John (? 1786-1872) Dramatist and Miscellaneous Author DNB: Poole, John (1785/6-1872), playwright and writer LBT ID: JoPoole1872 VIAF ID: 89815697 LOC ID: n82154721	B/BAP: 1786 DIED: 1872-02-04
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English comic writer and playwright; he contributed to the London Magazine and scored a great theatrical success with Paul Pry (1825). He spent his later years living impoverished in Paris.
REFERENCES TO John Poole: Charles Lamb to John Howard Payne, [Autumn 1822] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 5 Charles Lamb to John Howard Payne, [22 October 1822] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to John Howard Payne, 13 November 1822 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to John Howard Payne, [January 1823] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Gen. George Cockburn to Lady Morgan, 24 May 1823 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Verse 1: p. 165a Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Epipsychidion Found 1: ¶ 1 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. IV” in New Monthly Magazine 80 (June 1847) 137-43 Found 1: ¶ 7 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 14: Private Life Found 1: ¶ 3 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 27 Chapter VIII. Found 2: ¶ 68 ¶ 70 Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 23 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XII Verse 1: p. 165a Chapter XXIX Found 1: ¶ 14 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter IV. 1838-41. Found 1: ¶ 48 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1822 Found 1: ¶ 2 Letters: 1823 Found 1: ¶ 3