Selected Poems of James Henry

by James Henry

James Henry (1798-1876) was a controversially humane doctor in Dublin, elected Vice President of the College of Physicians in 1832. Thirteen years later, receiving a large legacy on the death of his mother, he gave up the practice of medicine to begin more than twenty years of journeying through Europe on foot, with his wife and daughter, studying Virgilian manuscripts and rare editions, translating The Aeneid, and writing poems. More than a century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590510216
• ISBN13: 9781590510216
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Handsel Books
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"