Darley, George

Darley, George, 1795–1846, English author and mathematician, b. Ireland. Included among his works are the pastoral drama Sylvia (1827), the poem Nepenthe (1835), a precursor of 20th-century symbolist poetry; and several books on mathematics.

See his letters (ed. with a memoir by C. C. Abbott, 1928).

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