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Charles Wolfe (14 December 1791 – 21 February 1823) was an !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , chiefly remembered for “The Burial of !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! after Corunna” which achieved popularity in 19th century poetry anthologies. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
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Born at Blackhall, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , the youngest son of Theobald Wolfe (1739-1799) of Blackhall and his wife (who was also his cousin) Frances (d.1811), daughter of the Rev. Peter Lombard (d.1752) of Clooncorrick Castle, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . His father was the godfather - but widely believed to be the natural father - of !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . He was a brother of Peter Wolfe (1776-1848), !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ; and, their father’s first cousin was !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
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Not long after he was born, his father died and the family moved to England. In 1801, Wolfe was sent to a school in !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! but was sent home a few months later due to his ill health. From 1802 to 1805, he was tutored by a Dr Evans in !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! before being sent to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , Winchester. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! He seems to have been exceedingly popular both at school and within his own family. In 1808, his family returned to Ireland, and the following year he was entered into !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , graduating in 1814. He had turned down the chance to read for a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! as he was in love with a girl and could not commit to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! as was then required.
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He was ordained as a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! priest in 1817, first taking the Curacy of !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! in !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! before transferring almost immediately to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . There he developed a close friendship and deep respect for the Rev. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , Rector of nearby Ardtrea, and a former Fellow of !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Wolfe wrote two !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for Meredith, one on his memorial in the parish church of Ardtrea, and another intended for his tomb, which can both be read within Meredith’s entry.
Charles Wolfe is best remembered for his poem, “The Burial of !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! after !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ”, written in 1816 and much collected in 19th and 20th century anthologies. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! The poem first appeared anonymously in the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! Telegraph of 19 April 1817, and was re-printed in many other periodicals. But it was forgotten until after his death when !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! drew the attention of the public to it. Wolfe’s only volume of verse, Poetical Remains appeared in 1825 with “The Burial of Sir John Moore” and fourteen other verses of an equally high standard.
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Wolfe remained at Donaghmore until 1820, but, rejected by the woman for whom he gave up his academic career, and with his only real friend in County Tyrone now dead (Meredith), he moved to the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Shortly before his death he returned to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and lived at !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , where he died at the age of 31 of !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , which he caught from a cow. He is buried in Cobh at !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! There is also a plaque to his memory in the church at !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! the village where he lived whilst Curate at Donaghmore, as well as a marble monument to him at !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .