George Heath -- An Overview

Patrick Regan has kindly shared the material from his George Heath site with readers of the Victorian Web, who may wish to consult the original.

Biographical Materials

• Memoir
• Diary

Works

• Complete text of 1870 edition of Poems
• Poems added in the 1880 edition
• Differences between the Two Memorial Editions

Critical Reception and Reputation

• "George Heath, The Moorland Poet" an article by Robert Buchanan from Good Words, March 1871
• "George Heath. The Staffordshire Moorland Poet." an article by the Rev. George Bird, M.A. from Great Thoughts, c. 1891.
• "The Moorland Poet" Chapter XXV of Staffordshire Worthies by Frederick Wm. Hackwood, 1911.
• "George Heath" from Staffordshire Poets, 1928.
• "Horton" from Arthur Mee's Staffordshire.

Tributes by other poets

• "George Heath, The Moorland Poet" by Elisha Walton
• "An Elegy. On The Late George Heath" by Elijah Cope

Last modified 3 September 2002