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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Joseph Blanco White (1775–1841)

White, Joseph Blanco. An English clergyman and controversialist; born at Seville, Spain, July 11, 1775; died at Liverpool, May 20, 1841. He edited in England, in the interests of Spanish independence, a monthly journal, El Español (1810–14); also as Variedades (1822–25); and the London Review (1829). He evolved from a Catholic priest through the Church of England into a Unitarian minister. Some of his publications are: ‘Letters from Spain, by Leucadio Doblado’ (1822); ‘Practical and Internal Evidence against Catholicism’ (1825); ‘The Poor Man’s Preservative against Popery’ (1825); ‘Second Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion’ (2 vols., 1833). Coleridge pronounced his ‘Night and Death’ the finest sonnet in the English language.