Robert Bell was an Irish journalist and miscellaneous writer. He was born in 1800 at Cork 1800 and died in 1867. He settled in London in 1828, edited the Atlas for several years, and afterwards the Monthly Chronicle, Mirror, and Home News. He compiled several volumes of Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia; but he is best known by his annotated edition of the British Poets, the first volume of which appeared in 1854, and which was carried through twenty-nine volumes. He also wrote several plays and novels. Research Robert Bell
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