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See also:DOBSON, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY See also:AUSTIN (184o- ) , See also:English poet and See also:man of letters, was See also:born at See also:Plymouth on the 18th, of See also:January 184o, being the eldest son of See also:George Clarisse Dobson, a See also:civil engineer, and on his grandmother's See also:side of See also:French descent. When he was about eight years old the See also:family moved to See also:Holyhead, and his first school was at See also:Beaumaris, in the Isle of Anglesea. He was afterwards educated at See also:Coventry, and the Gymnase, See also:Strassburg, whence he returned at the See also:age of sixteen with the intention of becoming a civil engineer. He had a See also:taste for See also:art, and in his earlier years at the 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 continued to study it at See also:South See also:Kensington, at his leisure, but without definite ambition. In See also:December 1856 he entered the See also:Board of See also:Trade, gradually rising to a principalship in the See also:harbour See also:department, from which he with-See also:drew in the autumn of 1901. He married in 1868 Frances See also:Mary, daughter of Nathaniel Beardmore of Broxbourne, Herts, and settled at See also:Ealing. His See also:official career was industrious though uneventful, but as poet and biographer he stands among the most distinguished of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. The student of Mr Austin Dobson's See also:work will be struck at once by the fact that it contains nothing immature: there are no juvenilia to criticize or excuse. It was about 1864 that Mr Dobson first turned his See also:attention to See also:composition in See also:prose and See also:verse, and some of his earliest known pieces remain among his best. It was not until 1868 that the See also:appearance of St See also:Paul's, a See also:magazine edited by See also:Anthony Troliope, afforded Mr Dobson an opportunity and an See also:audience; and during the next six years he contributed to its pages some of his favourite poems, including " Tu Quoque," " A See also:Gentleman of the Old School," " A See also:Dialogue from See also:Plato," and " Une Marquise." Many of his poems in their See also:original See also:form were illustrated—some, indeed, actually written to support illustrations. By the autumn of 1873 Mr Dobson had produced sufficient verse for a See also:volume, and put forth his Vignettes in See also:Rhyme, which quickly passed through three See also:editions. During the See also:period of their appearance in the magazine the poems had received unusual attention, George See also:Eliot, among others, extending generous encouragement to the See also:anonymous author. The little See also:book at once introduced him to a larger public. The period was an interesting one for a first appearance, since the See also:air was full of metrical experiment. See also:Swinburne's bold and dithyrambic excursions into classical See also:metre had given the See also:clue for an enlargement of the See also:borders of English See also:prosody; and, since it was hopeless to follow him in his own See also:line without necessary loss of vigour, the poets of the See also:day were looking about for fresh forms and See also:variations. It was See also:early in 1876 that a small See also:body of English poets lit upon the French forms of See also:Theodore de See also:Banville, See also:Marot and See also:Villon, and determined to introduce them into English verse. Mr Austin Dobson, who had already made successful use of the See also:triolet, was at the See also:head of this See also:movement, and in May 1876 he published in The Prodigals the first original See also:ballade written in English. This he followed by English versions of the See also:rondel, See also:rondeau and See also:villanelle. An See also:article in the Cornhill Magazine by
Mr See also:Edmund See also:Gosse, " A Plea for Certain See also:Exotic Forms of Verse," appearing in Ju1y1877, simultaneously with Mr Dobson's second volume, See also:Proverbs in See also:Porcelain, drew the See also:general See also:eye to the possibilities and achievements of the movement. The experiment was extremely fortunate in its introduction. Mr Dobson is above all things natural, spontaneous and unaffected in poetic method; and in his hands a sheaf of metrical forms, essentially artificial and laborious, was made to assume the See also:colour and See also:bright profusion of a natural product. An air of pensive See also:charm, of delicate sensibility, pervades the whole of these fresh revivals; and it is perhaps this See also:personal See also:touch of humanity which has given something like stability to one side of a movement other-See also:wise transitory in See also:influence. The See also:fashion has faded, but the See also:flowers of Mr Dobson's French See also:garden remain bright and scented.
In 1883 Mr Dobson published Old-See also:World Idylls, a volume which contains some of his most characteristic work. By this time his taste was gradually settling upon the period with which it has since become almost exclusively associated; and the spirit of the 18th See also:century is revived in " The Ballad of Beau See also:Brocade " and in " The See also:Story of Rosina," as nowhere else in See also:modern English See also:poetry. In " Beau Brocade," indeed, the pictorial quality of his work, the dainty See also:economy of eloquent touches, is at its very best: every See also:couplet has its picture, and every picture is true and vivacious. The touch has often been likened to that of See also:Randolph See also:Caldecott, with which it has much in See also:common; but Mr Dobson's See also:humour is not so " rollicking," his See also:portraiture not so broad, as that of the illustrator of " See also:John See also:Gilpin." The See also:appeal is rather to the See also:intellect, and the touches of subdued pathos in the " Gentleman " and " Gentlewoman of the Old School " are addressed directly to the See also:heart. We are in the 18th century, but see it through the glasses of to-day; and the soft intercepting sense of See also:change which hangs like a haze between ourselves and the subject is altogether due to the poet's sympathy and sensibility. At the Sign of the See also:Lyre (1885) was the next of Mr Dobson's See also:separate volumes of verse, although he has added to the body of his work in a volume of Collected Poems (1897). At the Sign of the Lyre contains examples of all his various moods. The admirably fresh and breezy " Ladies of St See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James's " has precisely the qualities we have traced in his other 18th-century poems; there are ballades and rondeaus, with all the earlier charm; and in " A Revolutionary Relic," as in " The See also:Child Musician " of the Old-World Idylls, the poet reaches a See also:depth of true pathos which he does not often See also:attempt, but in which, when he seeks it, he never fails. At the See also:pole opposite to these are the See also:light occasional verses, not untouched by the influence of See also:Praed, but also quite individual, buoyant and happy. But the See also:chief novelty in At the Sign of the Lyre was the See also:series of " Fables of Literature and Art," founded in manner upon See also:Gay, and exquisitely finished in scholarship, taste and See also:criticism. It is in these perhaps, more than in any other of his poems, that we see how with much felicity Mr Dobson interpenetrates the literature of See also:fancy with the literature of See also:judgment. After 1885 Mr Dobson was engaged principally upon See also:critical and See also:biographical prose, by which he has added very greatly to the general knowledge of his favourite 18th century. His See also:biographies of See also:Fielding (1883), See also:Bewick (1884), See also:Steele (1886), See also:Goldsmith (1888), See also:Walpole (189o) and See also:Hogarth (1879-1898) are studies marked alike by assiduous See also:research, sympathetic presentation and See also:sound criticism. It is particularly noticeable that Mr Dobson in his prose has always added something, and often a See also:great See also:deal, to our See also:positive knowledge of the subject in question, his work as a critic never being solely aesthetic. In Four French-See also:women (189o), in the three series of Eighteenth-Century Vignettes (1892-1894-1896), and in The See also:Paladin of Philanthropy (1899), which contain unquestionably his most delicate prose work, the accurate detail of each study is relieved by a charm of expression which could only be attained by a poet. In 1901 he collected his hitherto unpublished poems in a volume en-titled Carmina Votiva. Possessing an exquisite See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent of defined range, Mr Austin Dobson may be said in his own words to have " held his See also:pen in See also:trust for Art " with a service sincere and distinguished.
End of Article: DOBSON, HENRY AUSTIN (184o- )
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