John Gray (poet) French, German, Latin, music and art. In 1882 he passed the Civil Service exams and, five years later, the University of London matriculation exams. He joined the Foreign Office where he became a librarian. Gray is best known today as an aesthetic poet of the 1890s and as a friend of Ernest Dowson, Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde. He was also a talented translator, bringing works by the French Symbolists Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Jules Laforgue and Arthur Rimbaud into English, often for the first time. He is purported to be the inspiration behind the title character in Wilde's "The
John Harris (poet) died in 1884 having requested that he should be buried at Treslothan Chapel, near the village of Troon. There has been some revival of interest in his work, and recently, the book "The Cornish Poet" was brought out by the John Harris Society, containing his collected works. John Harris (poet) John Harris FRHS (1820–1884) was a Cornish poet. He became a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in April 1879 for being ″"distinguished in letters"″. Harris was born and raised in a two-bedroom cottage on the slopes of Bolenowe, a small hamlet near Camborne, Cornwall, in England. He was the