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Author: Rogers, Samuel

Biography:

ROGERS, Samuel (1763-1855: ODNB)

Almost alone among the major poets of the period in having no money worries, Samuel Rogers was born in Newington Green, one of the eight children of Mary (Radford) and Thomas Rogers. He was raised in a liberal Protestant family, attended private schools in Hackney and Stoke Newington, and hoped to become a minister himself, but instead he yielded to his father's wishes and joined him as a banker in Cornhill. Though he prospered at the bank, literature was his avocation. His earlier volumes received encouraging reviews;The Pleasures of Memory was a much-imitated best-seller. As time went on, new works met a cooler reception, and Rogers at first published Italy without his name. (It did not do well until after he had carefully revised it and issued a handsome illustrated edition in 1830.) Rogers was a connoisseur and collector: he built and furnished a house in Westminster to be his gallery and salon, and was well known for his generosity to other writers--though also for his sharp tongue. In 1850, on the death of Wordsworth, he was offered the position of Poet Laureate, which he declined in favour of Tennyson. Rogers never married. He died at his home in Westminster and was buried with his closest brother and sister in Hornsey churchyard. (ODNB 5 Aug. 2020)

 

Other Names:

  • Rogers
  • S. Rogers
  • Samuel Rodgers
 

Books written (82):

[London]: Richardson and Urquhart, [1774]
4th edn. London: Cadell; Dilly, 1792
2nd edn. London: [no publisher: printed by Davis, sold by Cadell], 1792
London: [no publisher: printed by Davis, sold by Cadell], 1792
5th edn. London: Cadell; Dilly, 1793
6th edn. London: Cadell; Dilly, 1794
7th edn. London: Cadell and Davies; Dilly, 1795
8th edn. London: Cadell and Davies; Dilly, 1796
9th edn. London: Cadell, Jr., and Davies, 1796
London: T. Cadell, Jr., and W. Davies, 1798
New edn. London: T. Cadell, Jr., and W. Davies, 1799
Wilmington [DE]: printed by James Wilson, 1800
New edn. London: T. Cadell, Jr., and W. Davies, 1801
Dublin: printed by William Porter, 1802
New edn. London: T. Cadell, Jr., and W. Davies, 1802
New edn. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1803
Philadelphia: H. Maxwell, 1804
Dublin: printed by P. Wogan, 1804
New edn. London: Cadell and Davies, 1806
Cambridge [MA]: W. Hilliard, 1807
New edn. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810
Windsor: printed by E. Harding, 1812
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, and T. Bensley, 1812
[London]: [printed by T. Bensley and Son], [1812]
Philadelphia/ New York: Bradford and Inskeep/ Inskeep and Bradford, 1813
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814
New edn. London: J. Murray, 1814
London: J. Murray, 1814
Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1814
New York: Eastburn, Kirk, and Co., 1814
Baltimore : F. Lucas, Jr. and Jos. Cushing, 1814
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814
Belfast: Samuel Archer, 1815
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1816
New edn. London/ Paris: no publisher/ Theophilus Barrois, Jr., 1818
New edn. London: T. Cadell, Jr., and W. Davies, 1819
Philadelphia: M. Thomas, 1819
London: Murray, 1819
London: John Murray, 1820
2nd American edn. Cambridge [MA]: the University Press, 1820
New York/ Richmond VA: R. and W. A. Bartow/ W. A. Bartow, 1820
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822
New edn. London: T. Cadell, 1822
3rd edn. London: John Murray, 1823
After the 1823 London edn. Philadelphia/ New York: E. Littell/ Norris Henry, 1823
New edn. London: John Murray, 1823
New edn. London: T. Cadell, 1827
London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1828
London: T. Cadell and E. Moxon, 1830
London: John Stephens, John Mason, and Simpkin and Marshall, 1830
Belfast: Simms and McIntyre, 1830
Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1830
Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1831
Philadelphia: J. Grigg, 1832
London: T. Cadell and E. Moxon, 1834
London: T. Cadell and E. Moxon, 1834
Philadelphia: J. Grigg, 1834
[1835?] Philadelphia: Thomas T. Ash, [1835?]