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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