ABSTRACT
Kirke White (1785-1806) was a young poet, son of a Nottingham butcher, who became a protege of Southey after publishing some juvenile poems. He went up to St John's College, Cambridge, and died, it was said, of overwork. Southey published his papers posthumously ('Melancholy Hours' in Remains, ed. R. Southey, 1806, ii, p. 286).
