Aubrey Thomas Hunt De Vere
Aubrey Thomas Hunt De Vere
Poet, born County Limerick, Ireland , 1814 ; died there, 1902 . A personal disciple of Wordsworth, he wrote poems based on the legends of Greece and Ireland . He was graduated from Trinity College, Dublin . Later he visited Cambridge , Oxford, and Rome, and came under the influence of Newman. Largely through his study of Coleridge, and the conversion of Cardinal Manning, he became a Catholic , 1857 . His chief works are: “The Waldenses” (a lyrical sketch); “Search after Proserpine” (recollections of Greece ); “Poetical Works”; and “Essays.”