John Sampson

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1862 – 1931

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Who was John Sampson?

John Sampson was an Irish linguist. As a scholar he is best known for The Dialect of the Gypsies of Wales, an authoritative grammar of the Welsh-Romany language. It was written with the collaboration of Edward Wood, who died in 1902. Sampson edited a collection the poetry of William Blake, Blake's "Poetical Works", that restored the text from original works and annotated the published variants; Alfred Kazin described this as "the first accurate and completely trustworthy edition'.

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Born
1862
Schull
Also known as
  • Сампсон, Джон
Died
1931

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on July 23, 2013

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