Henry Sewell Stokes (1808-1895). From a painting by Edward A. Fellowes Prynne, 1891. The following biography is from West Country Poets: Their Lives and Their Works. Being an account of about four hundred verse writers of Devon and Cornwall, with poems and extracts. Edited by W. H. Kearley Wright. London: Elliot Stock, 1896. *  *  … Continue reading Henry Sewell Stokes