How Beautiful It Is to Be Alive

Author: Henry Septimus Sutton

Sutton, Henry Septimus, born at Nottingham, 1825, the son of a bookseller and newspaper proprietor. He was articled to a surgeon, but abandoned medicine for literature. Mr. Sutton's connection with newspaper work has been life-long, and for upwards of thirty years he has been editor of the Alliance News. His first volume of Poems was issued from the Review office, Nottingham, 1848. This included Clifton Grove Garland, a long descriptive and narrative poem. In 1854 appeared Quinquinergia, a prose work of mystical religion, the author being a member of the New Church. To this was appended a series of poems, entitled Rose's Diary, written in memory of an early friend of the author's, who died in 1850. In successive cantos the changing moods an… Go to person page >