Charles (William Charles Mark) Kent (1823-1902) was an English poet, biographer, and journalist, born in London. After completing his education at Prior Park and Oscott, he became editor of the Sun (1845–70), studied law at the same time and was called to the bar in 1859 as a member of Middle Temple, but thereafter devoted himself to literature. He edited Weekly Register, a Roman Catholic paper (1874–81).

A personal friend of Charles Dickens, he contributed to Household Words and All the Year Round under Dickens's editorship and to other periodicals. Several volumes of poems, published previously in the forties, fifties, and sixties, provided the materials for his collected Poems (1870).

In later years he gave himself largely to editorial work—chiefly complete editions of the greater English writers, memoirs, and critiques, and notably Burns (1874), Lamb (1875 and 1893), Moore (1879), Father Prout (1881), and Lord Lytton (1875, 1883, and 1898). He also wrote Leigh Hunt as an Essayist (1888), The Wit and Wisdom of Lord Lytton (1883), and The Humour and Pathos of Charles Dickens (1884). +

Publications

Works

• Poems (1870)
• A mythological dictionary (1870)
• Charles Dickens as a Reader (1872)
• Leigh Hunt as an Essayist (1888)
• The Wit and Wisdom of Lord Lytton (1883)
• The Humour and Pathos of Charles Dickens (1884)

Works about Kent

• Obituary: Mr. Charles Kent, man of letters in The Times
• Charles Kent in Notes by the Way by J. C. Francis, (1909).

External links

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William Charles Mark Kent

• Works by Charles Kent at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Charles Kent at Internet Archive
• Charles Kent Papers. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.