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See also:DAVIDSON, See also:JOHN (1857–1909) , See also:British poet, playwright and novelist, son of the Rev. See also:Alexander Davidson, a See also:minister of the Evangelical See also:Union, was See also:born at See also:Barrhead, See also:Renfrewshire, See also:Scotland, on the 11th of See also:April 1857. After a schooling at the Highlanders' See also:Academy, See also:Greenock, at the See also:age of thirteen he was set to See also:work in that See also:town, by helping in a See also:sugar factory laboratory and then in the town See also:analyst's See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office; and at fifteen he went back to his old school as a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil-teacher. In 1876 he studied for a session at See also:Edinburgh University, and then went as a See also:master to various Scotch See also:schools till 1890, varying his experiences in 1884 by being a clerk in a See also:Glasgow See also:- THREAD (0. Eng. praed, literally, that which is twisted, prawan, to twist, to throw, cf. " throwster," a silk-winder, Ger. drehen, to twist, turn, Du. draad, Ger. Draht, thread, wire)
thread See also:firm. He had married in 1885, and meanwhile his See also:literary inclinations had shown themselves, without attracting any public success, in the publication of his poetical and fantastic plays, See also:Bruce (1886), See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith; a tragic See also:farce (1888) and See also:Scaramouch in See also:Naxos (1889). Determining at all See also:costs to follow his literary vocation, he went to See also:London in 18go, but at first had a hard struggle. There his See also:prose-See also:romance Perfervid (1890) was published, one of the most See also:original and fascinating stories of "See also:young See also:blood " and See also:child See also:adventure ever written, but for some See also:reason it did not catch the public; and a sort of sequel in The See also:Great Men (1891) met no better See also:fate. He contributed, however, to See also:newspapers and became known among literary journalists, and his See also:volume of See also:verse In a See also:Music-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall (1891) prepared the way for the genuine success two years later of his See also:Fleet See also:Street Eclogues (1893), which sounded a new and vigorous See also:note and at once established his position among the younger See also:generation of poets. He subsequently produced several more books in prose, romantic stories like Baptist See also:Lake (1894) and See also:Earl See also:Lavender (1895), and an admirable piece of descriptive landscape See also:writing in A See also:Random Itinerary (1894) ; but his See also:acceptance as a poet gave a more emphatic impulse to his work in verse, and most See also:attention was given to the increasing See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof of his See also:powers shown in his See also:Ballads and Songs (1894), Second See also:Series of Fleet Street Eclogues (1895), New Ballads, (1896), The Last Ballad, &.c.( 898) , all full of remarkably fresh and unconventional beauty. In spite of the strangely neglected See also:genius of this See also:early Perfervid, it is accordingly as a writer of verse rather than of prose-fiction that he occupies a leading See also:place, with a decided See also:character of his own, in See also:recent See also:English literature, his revival of a modernized ballad See also:form being a considerable achievement in itself, and his poems being packed with See also:fine thought, robust and masterful in expression and imagery. Meanwhile in 1896 he produced an English verse See also:adaptation, in For the See also:Crown (acted by See also:Forbes
See also:Robertson and Mrs See also:Patrick See also:- CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
- CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
- CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN
- CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
- CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908)
- CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
- CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)
Campbell), of See also:Francois See also:Coppee's See also:drama Pour la couronne, which had considerable success and was revived in 1905; and he wrote several other literary plays, remarkable none the less for dramatic qualities ,Godfrida (1898), Self's the See also:Man (1901), The See also:Knight of the Maypole (1902) and The Theatrocrat (1905), in the last of which a tendency to be extra-See also:ordinary is rather too See also:manifest. This tendency was not absent from his volume of See also:Holiday and Other Poems (1906), containing many fine things, together with an " See also:essay on See also:blank verse" illustrated from his own compositions, the outspoken criticisms of a writer of admitted originality and insight, but not devoid of See also:eccentric volubility. But if the See also:identification of "eccentricity" and " greatness " by Cosmo See also:Mortimer in Mr Davidson's own Perfervid sometimes obtrudes itself on the memory in considering his more peculiarly " robust " and somewhat volcanic deliverances, no such objection can detract from the genuine See also:inspiration of his best work, in which the true poetic afflatus is unmistakable. This is to be found in his poems published from 1893 to 1898, five years during which his reputation steadily and deservedly See also:grew,—the Fleet Street Eclogues, with their passionate See also:modern See also:criticism of See also:life combined with their breath of rural beauty, and such intense ballads as those " Of a See also:Nun," and " Of See also:Heaven and See also:Hell." In his ethical and didactic utterances, The Testament of a Vivisector and The Testament of a Man Forbid (1901), The Testament of an See also:Empire Builder (1902), See also:Mammon and his See also:Message (1908), &c., the fine quality of the verse is wedded with a certain fervid satirical journalism of subject, less admirable than the detachment of thought in the earlier volumes. In later years he lived at See also:Penzance, provided with a small See also:Civil See also:List See also:pension, but otherwise badly off, for his writings brought in very little See also:money. On See also:March 23rd, 1909, he disappeared, in circumstances pointing to See also:suicide, and six months later his See also:body was found in the See also:sea.
See an See also:article by Filson Young on " The New See also:Poetry," in the Fortnightly See also:Review, See also:January 1909.
End of Article: DAVIDSON, JOHN (1857–1909)
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