{"id":30,"date":"2013-05-25T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/2013\/05\/25\/sonnet-to-john-critchley-prince\/"},"modified":"2013-05-25T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T15:26:00","slug":"sonnet-to-john-critchley-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/2013\/05\/25\/sonnet-to-john-critchley-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet to John Critchley Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sonnet to John Critchley Prince<\/b>
\n<\/a>
<\/b>
\nAuthor of \u201cHours with the Muses\u201d
\nHail! Prince of modern poets! Thou whose song
\nSo oft hath charm\u2019d me in dull sorrow\u2019s hour:
\nTo grasp thy honest hand I ofttimes long:
\nFor few like thee have gain\u2019d the magic power
\nOf charming heart and mind: it is a dower 5
\nWhich Nature only on a few bestows,
\nFor fear that she the honour due should lose
\nWhich from her sons she claims. For poets are
\nNature\u2019s first fav\u2019rites; and their only care
\nIs for their mother,\u2014knowing well that she 10
\nIs no cross step-dame, but a parent kind,
\nFor ever striving to endow mankind
\nWith peace, and love, and health, and liberty,
\nWhose pioneers are poets such as thee.<\/p>\n

George Markham Tweddell<\/b>
\n[Tweddell\u2019s Yorkshire Miscellany, p. 309, April 1846, &
\nThe Life of John Critchley Prince, Lithgow (1880). A
\nsecond stanza can be found on p. 60]<\/p>\n

Addition to first stanza of \u2018John Critchley Prince\u2019
\nII
\nSo sang I years before we ever met;
\nAnd it delighted me when I did know
\nMy Sonnet smooth\u2019d one wrinkle on his brow,
\nWhere Poverty and Care too oft were set:
\nAnd though at times he prudence did forget, 5
\nAnd sought to drown his sorrows in the bowl,
\nWhich gives but for the moment to the soul
\nEase of its pains, yet he did never let
\nOne sordid or immoral line defile
\nThe purity of his sweet po\u00ebsy; 10
\nHis muse being one of perfect chastity.
\nHe loved the freedom of his native isle;
\nAnd in all things of nature he could see
\nBeauty and joy and heavenly purity.<\/p>\n

George Markham Tweddell<\/b>
\nBorn Wigan, June 21st, 1808; resided for
\nmany years at Ashton-under-Lyne; and Died
\nat Hyde, May 5th, 1866. [1st stanza on p. 30]<\/p>\n

John Critchely Prince<\/b> was another friend and fellow poet who Tweddell published in his publications. In the intro to Tweddell’s poems (look at the top menu bar for the link) there’s a comparison and exchange between them.<\/p>\n

You can read on line The Life of John Critchley  with links to his poetry on line – here – <\/b>
\nhttp:\/\/gerald-massey.org.uk\/prince\/b_biog.htm<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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Sonnet to John Critchley Prince Author of \u201cHours with the Muses\u201d Hail! Prince of modern poets! Thou whose song So oft hath charm\u2019d me in dull sorrow\u2019s hour: To grasp thy honest hand I ofttimes long: For few like thee have gain\u2019d the magic power Of charming heart and mind: it is a dower 5 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/sonnetsonpoets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}