Poems and Songs [of David Wingate]

Poems and Songs [of David Wingate]

Wingate, David

Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1862

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1862

George Eliot to John Blackwood, London, 28 February 1862. "I have waited to say all this until I should have read the Collier's poems, which came this morning. They have interested me strongly: perhaps, if I were forced to declare my favourite, I should put my finger on "Spae Craft," which, to my feeling, contains some really fine touches. But through all the poems there is a charming purity of sentiment, and a not less surprizing absence of affectation and maudlin effort after the pathetic. Perhaps those who know, as I do, the characteristics of a coal district, are the only readers who can quite appreciate the high superiority of nature indicated by such poems from the mind of a collier. I rather envy you your opportunity of helping such a man." GEL 4: 18-9. "David Wingate (1828-92), whose Poems and Songs Blackwood was about to publish. In his preface Wingate declares that he has been a collier since his ninth year, though he asks no special consideration from critics on that account." GEL 4: 36f.

Wingate, David, Poems and Songs [of David Wingate], George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57637

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