Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, translator and school master. Pseudonym: J. R. Author information from the Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for his poem The Soldier’s Dream, published on 23 April 1859, which lists the poet as J. Rhoades Esq., Elms, Rugby (NLS 341/310). Born in Clonmel County, Tipperary. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Son of Rev. James Peter Rhoades of The Elms, Rugby. Biographical information: Venn 2: 282. (AC)