header icon for Victorian Web

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
Victorian Web


Last modified 3 September 2002