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- Born:
- Dec. 14, 1791, Dublin, Ire.
- Died:
- Feb. 21, 1823, Queenstown, County Cork (aged 31)
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Charles Wolfe
Irish poet
Charles Wolfe (born Dec. 14, 1791, Dublin, Ire.—died Feb. 21, 1823, Queenstown, County Cork) was an Irish poet and clergyman, whose “Burial of Sir John Moore” (1817), commemorating the commander of the British forces at the Battle of Corunna (La Coruña, Spain) during the Peninsular War, is one of the best-known funeral elegies in English. Wolfe attended Trinity College, Dublin, was ordained in 1817, and held curacies in County Tyrone.
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