# Robert Millhouse

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{{Short description|English Spenserian poet}}
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'''Robert Millhouse''' (1788–1839) was an [English](/source/England) [Spenserian](/source/Spenserian_sonnet) [poet](/source/poet), born in [Nottingham](/source/Nottingham), England.

Contemporaneously compared to [Robert Bloomfield](/source/Robert_Bloomfield) and [John Clare](/source/John_Clare), he too obtained some fame as a provincial poet, though his own life was affected by his serial marriages, ill-health and poverty. His ''Poetical Blossoms'' was somewhat notably edited by fellow Nottingham poet, [clergyman](/source/clergyman) and [antiquary](/source/antiquary) Reverend [Luke Booker](/source/Luke_Booker), in 1823.

==Notable publications==
* ''Vicissitude, a poem in four books and other pieces.'' 1821.
* ''Blossoms by Robert Millhouse. Being a selection of sonnets. 2nd edition.'' 1823.
* ''The song of the patriot, sonnets, and songs.'' 1826.
* ''Sherwood forest, and other poems.'' 1827.
* ''The destinies of man.'' 1832.
* ''The destinies of man, part second.'' 1834.
* ''The sonnets and songs of Robert Millhouse, ed. J. P. Briscoe.'' 1881.

==References==
*{{cite DNB|wstitle=Millhouse, Robert|volume=37}}
*[https://archive.today/20121215110316/http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/authorrecord.php?action=GET&recordid=33413 Entry in index of Spenserian poets. ]
*[https://archive.org/details/songpatriotsonn00millgoog 'The song of the patriot, sonnets, and songs', by Robert Millhouse, at the Internet Archive.]

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Category:1788 births
Category:1839 deaths
Category:Writers from Nottingham
Category:English male poets
Category:19th-century English poets

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