Blacket

Yet when he felt a genuine sympathy with the would-be poet writing to him — as with John Clare and Joseph Blacket — he was an encouraging and kind respondent, delighted to assist at the birth of a fellow labouring-class author (Letters 241, 348, 358)

Introduction: Tim Fulford 2009

[1] Specimens of the Poetry of Joseph Blacket: with an Account of his Life, and some Introductory

Letter 241 2009

Blacket, Joseph (1786 – 1810): of a family of poor Yorkshire labourers, apprenticed to his brother in London as a ladies 'shoemaker.

Index of People 2009

His volume Specimens of the Poetry of Joseph Blacket (1809) was a private edition attracting many subscribers among the nobility.

Index of People 2009

Pratt made himself the patron of Bloomfield's fellow shoemaker poet Joseph Blacket.

Index of People 2009

Also a search sonar, and we were able to pick up targets down 1,300 feet in the strong, bottom currents of Blacket (ph) Strait, sent it down, and sure enough, we came in there and there was PT-109 sticking out the side of a sand dune.

CNN Transcript Nov 22, 2002 2002

In the introduction to them, in some volumes published by Hurst and Blacket in

Our Village Mary Russell Mitford 1821

Yours and Pratt's [1] _protégé_, Blacket, [2] the cobbler, is dead, in spite of his rhymes, and is probably one of the instances where death has saved a man from damnation.

The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

'Correspondence of Lord Byron' (pp. 127, 128) occurs the following passage, from which, if Dallas's grammar is to be trusted, it seems that the famous epitaph on Blacket was not Byron's composition.

The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

Blacket died on the Seaham estate in Sept., 1810, at the age of twenty-three.

Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806