Nicholas Michell

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Nicholas Michell, born in 1807, died in 1880, and he was best known for his poetry.

Personal life

Michell, a tin smelter and chemist, was born near Calenick, Cornwall, son of John Michell (1774–1868), who was known as the "father of the tin trade," a tin smelter and chemist and one of tantalite's discoverers, was born in Calenick. Michell spent time in Calenick's office and later in London after attending Truro Grammar School. Maria, John Waterhouse's second daughter, died in Penzance on August 3, 1887, aged 74. Michell himself was born in Tehidy Terrace, Falmouth, on April 6th, 1880, and was buried in the St. Kea churchyard on May 12th.

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Career

He wrote poems from an early age; was encouraged by Thomas Campbell and other literary men, and contributed to the Forget-me-not, the Keepsake, and other annuals. But it was not till after the publication of his Ruins of Many Lands in 1849 that Michell succeeded in attracting much public attention. This work supplies poetical descriptions of nearly all the existing remains of ancient people and kingdoms in the old and new world. His next work, produced in 1853, was the Spirits of the Past, a title altered in a subsequent edition to Famous Women and Heroes.

The Poetry of Creation followed in 1856, and Pleasure, a poem in the heroic measure, appeared in 1859, with sketches and tales introduced. The Immortals, or Glimpses of Paradise, was composed in 1870 in Cornwall, and is the most imaginative of the author's productions. Sibyl of Cornwall, a story in verse, deals with love and adventure, the scene being laid on the north coast of his native county. He also wrote several novels, but these did not obtain so large a circulation as his poems.

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