author
Samuel Rogers
1763–1855
Best known in his own time as a polished poet and brilliant host, he moved at the center of London’s literary world and counted Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Byron among his friends. His work often blends memory, feeling, and elegant reflection, offering a window into the taste of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Poems
by Samuel Rogers
About the author
Born in Stoke Newington, near London, in 1763, Samuel Rogers was an English poet who also worked in the family banking business. His financial independence helped him devote much of his life to literature, collecting art, and supporting writers and artists.
Rogers first won wide notice with The Pleasures of Memory, a poem that made him one of the best-known literary figures of his day. He later published works including Columbus and Italy, and for many years his London breakfasts and dinners were famous gathering places for major cultural figures.
Although later generations often placed him in the shadow of his Romantic contemporaries, Rogers remained an important presence in British literary life. He was admired not only for his verse, but also for his conversation, his patronage, and the vivid recollections he left of the writers and artists around him.