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Robert Anderson (poet)
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Robert Anderson, was an English labouring class poet from Carlisle. He was best known for his ballad-style poems in Cumbrian dialect.
A silhouette of the poet from the 1820s (Tullie House Museum, Carlisle)
A silhouette of the poet from the 1820s (Tullie House Museum, Carlisle)
A woodcut of a cockfight outside a country inn engraved attributed to Thomas Bewick in 1805
A woodcut of a cockfight outside a country inn engraved attributed to Thomas Bewick in 1805
James Hook (composer)
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James Hook was an English composer and organist and a friend of Joseph Haydn and Muzio Clementi.
Robert Anderson (poet)
…he started writing - "Lucy Gray of Allendale" being the first of his compositions. This and others written that year were set to music by the composer James Hook and performed to some applause in 1794. In 1796 he returned to support his father in Carlisle and found work with a firm there. Two years later his…
James Hook by Lemuel Francis Abbott
James Hook by Lemuel Francis Abbott
Portrait of Sarah Prince by John Brewster, Jr. (ca. 1801). She is holding a copy of the sheet music for Hook's song "The Silver Moon" (1794).
Portrait of Sarah Prince by John Brewster, Jr. (ca. 1801). She is holding a copy of the sheet music for Hook's song "The Silver Moon" (1794).