- Edward Moxon
Edward Moxon (
12 December ,1801 -3 June ,1858 ) was a Britishpoet andpublisher .Moxon was born at
Wakefield inYorkshire his father Michael worked in thewool trade . In 1817 he left for London, joiningLongman in 1821. In 1826, encouraged by his friendCharles Lamb , he published a volume of verse, entitled "The Prospect, and other Poems", which was received favourably.In 1830 Moxon started his own publishing firm in
New Bond Street , aided by a £500 loan fromSamuel Rogers . The first volume he produced was Charles Lamb's "Album Verses". Moxon also published an illustrated edition of Rogers's "Italy" in 1830, £10,000 being spent upon the illustrations. Moving to 44 Dover Street, Piccadilly in 1833 Moxon married Emma Isola in the same year. Wordsworth entrusted him with the publication of his works from 1835 onwards, and in 1839 he issued the first complete edition of Shelley's poems.Some passages in Shelley's "
Queen Mab " resulted in a charge ofblasphemy being made against Moxon in 1841. The case was tried before Lord Denman.Serjeant Talfourd defended Moxon, but the jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the offensive passages were expunged. Moxon continued to publish. In 1840 be publishedRobert Browning 's "Sordello"; and in succeeding years works by Richard Monckton Milnes,Tom Hood ,Barry Cornwall , Lord Lytton, Browning andAlfred Tennyson appeared. Both Tennyson and Wordsworth were to become personal friends of Moxon.On Moxon's death, his business was continued by the printer Frederick Evans and later James Bertrand Payne, with input from Moxon's widow Emma and his son Arthur. In 1865 the firm published Swinburne's "Atalanta in Calydon"; in 1871 it was taken over by Ward, Lock & Tyler.
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* [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.moxon/edwardmoxon.html Biography of Edward Moxon] by his great great grandson.
*1911Persondata
NAME = Moxon, Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Poet and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH =12 December ,1801
PLACE OF BIRTH =Wakefield ,Yorkshire ,England
DATE OF DEATH =3 June ,1858
PLACE OF DEATH =
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