Thomas Medwin

Thomas Medwin
Born(1788-03-20)20 March 1788
Horsham, Sussex, England
Died2 August 1869(1869-08-02) (aged 81)
Horsham, Sussex, England
Resting placeSt. Mary's Churchyard, Horsham
Occupation
  • Poet
  • biographer
  • novelist
  • translator
NationalityEnglish
EducationSyon House
Literary movementRomanticism
Notable worksJournal of the conversations of Lord Byron (1824), The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, translated into English verse 1832, The life of P. B. Shelley 2 vols. (1847)

Thomas Medwin (20 March 1788 –2 August 1869) was an early 19th-century English writer, poet and translator. He is known chiefly for his biography of his cousin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and for published recollections of his friend, Lord Byron.


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