Michell, Nicholas (M)

Surname: Michell
Forename(s): Nicholas
b. 4 June 1807. d. 6 April 1880. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet. Born in Calenick, near Truro, Cornwall. Son of the poet and tin-smelter John Michell. Attended Truro Grammar School. Employed as a clerk in his father’s Calenick smelting works, then moved to London and worked for a copper merchant. Friend of the poet Thomas Campbell. Retired to Falmouth, Cornwall. Poetry volumes include London in Light and Darkness (1871), Sprits of the Past (1853, reissued as Famous Women and Heroes: A Poem, in Seven Parts [1871]), The Heart’s Great Rulers: A Poem (1874). Biographical information: Reilly, Mid-Victorian Poetry, p. 312-13; W. H. Kearley Wright, West-Country Poets: Their Lives and Works, Elliot Stock, 1896, pp. 330-2; ODNB. (AC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 29
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
The Soldier’s Return 1828 Forget-Me-Not Poet 14008
Remorse 1829 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15606
Hope 1830 Forget-Me-Not Poet 14456
Palmyra 1831 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15702
Morning in the East 1831 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15717
Scamander 1832 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15301
Memory in Solitude 1832 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15263
The Mother 1832 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15296
To the Tempest 1832 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15261
A Banquet Scene 1833 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15230
The Dying Infant 1833 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15251
Evening in Autumn 1833 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15259
To My Native Valley 1833 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15242
Lanherne Convent 1834 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15754
An Italian Night 1834 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15731
Buried Friendship 1834 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15743
The Cottage in the Hebrides 1835 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15221
The Coliseum at Rome 1839 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15359
The Dying Seaman 1841 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15381
The Old Manor-House 1842 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15418
The Christian Victim. (A Scene in the Coliseum) 1845 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15831
The Spirit of Ruin 1846 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15480
The Bride of the Nile 1847 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15505
The Creation of Woman 1852 The Keepsake Poet 5599
The Oases of Lybia 1852-04-03 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 6165
Hymn to the Classic Rhone 1854 The Keepsake Poet 5663
Gallic and English Beauties 1855 The Keepsake Poet 5725
The Clyde in November 1855-11-10 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 7711
Spirits 1857 The Keepsake Poet 5766