Vere, AUBREY THOMAS DE,

Vere, AUBREY THOMAS DE, poet, was born 10th January 1814, the third son of Sir Aubrey de Vere of Currah Chase, County Limerick, who was himself a poet. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and embraced the Roman Catholic faith about 1851. He has written a long series of poems, beginning with The Waldenses (1842), which show much grace and beauty, if little strength. Many of these are devoted to native Irish legends, especially those religious. His poetical works were collected in 3 vols. in 1884. Other works are on the picturesque aspects of Greece and Turkey, on the English government of Ireland, on church questions, and especially essays on Wordsworth, Landor, Shelley, Keats, &c. (2 vols. 1887), and Recollections (1897).