This was followed in March 1823 by his Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous, inscribed to the Scottish poet Joanna Baillie, which was reviewed extensively in The British Magazine of that year[8] and had considerable success.
Donne's "beauties of thought and diction", he wrote, "are so overloaded with far-fetched conceits and quaintnesses... that there is now very little probability of his ever regaining the popularity which he has lost.
It was popular in its time, but marred, according to the philologist Richard Garnett by a "curious dialect that was then considered to represent mediaeval English.
"[13] Neele was described as "short of stature and of appearance rather humble and unprepossessing, but his large expanse of forehead and the fire of his eye betokened mind and imagination.
"[14] Following a period of overwork, he is said to have become confused and deranged about nine days before he committed suicide at home in Marylebone by slitting his own throat on 7 February 1828.