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See also:WATSON, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1858- ) , See also:English poet, was See also:born on the 2nd of See also:August 1858 at Burley-in-Wharfedale, See also:Yorkshire, and was brought up at See also:Liverpool, whither his See also:father moved for business. In 188o he published his first See also:book The See also:Prince's Quest, a poem showing the See also:influence of See also:Keats and See also:Tennyson, but giving little indication of the author's mature See also:style. It attracted no See also:attention until it was republished in 1893 after Mr Watson had made a name by other See also:work. In 1884 appeared Epigrams of See also:Art, See also:Life and Nature, a remarkable little•See also:volume, which already showed the See also:change to Mr Watson's characteristic See also:restraint and concision of manner. But it passed unnoted. Recognition came with the publication of See also:Wordsworth's See also:Grave in 189o; and fame with the publication of the second edition in 1891, and the See also:appearance in the Fortnightly See also:Review, August 1891, of an See also:article by See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant See also:- ALLEN, BOG OF
- ALLEN, ETHAN (1739–1789)
- ALLEN, GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (1848–1899)
- ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1850– )
- ALLEN, JOHN (1476–1534)
- ALLEN, or ALLEYN, THOMAS (1542-1632)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM (1532-1594)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS (183o-1889)
Allen entitled " A New Poet." Wordsworth's Grave, which marked a reversion from the current Tennysonian and Swinburnian See also:fashion to the meditative See also:note of See also:Matthew See also:Arnold, exhibited in full maturity Mr Watson's poetical qualities; his stately diction, his fastidious See also:taste, his epigrammatic turn, his restrained yet eloquent utterance, his remarkable See also:gift of See also:literary See also:criticism in poetic See also:form. Besides Wordsworth's Grave the volume contained Ver tenebrosum (originally published in the See also:national Review for See also:June 1885), a See also:series of See also:political sonnetsindicating a fervour of political conviction which was later to find still more impassioned expression; also a selection with additions from the Epigrams of 1884, and among other See also:miscellaneous pieces his See also:tribute to Arnold, " In Laleham See also:Churchyard." During the years 189o-189z he contributed articles to the National Review, Spectator, Illustrated See also:London See also:News, See also:Academy, Bookman and See also:Atalanta, which were collected and republished in 1893 as Excursions ,in Criticism. In 1893 he also published Lacrymae Musaram, the poem which gave the See also:title to the volume being a See also:fine See also:elegy on the See also:death of Tennyson; and it included the poem on " See also:Shelley's See also:Centenary " (both of these printed privately in 1892), and " The See also:Dream of See also:Man," the earliest of his philosophical poems. The same See also:year, too, saw the publication of The Eloping Angels, a serio-comic trifle of small merit, dedicated to Grant Allen. During this year Mr See also:Gladstone bestowed on him the See also:Civil See also:List See also:pension of £200 available on the death of Tennyson. In 1894 followed Odes and Other Poems, and in 1895 The Father. of the See also:Forest, which contained also the fine " Hymn to the See also:Sea " in English elegiacs (originally contributed to the Yellow Book), " The See also:Tomb of See also:Burns," and " Apologia," a piece of candid and just self-criticism. The volume contained also a See also:sonnet " To the Turk in See also:Armenia," a prelude to the series of sonnets about Armenia contributed to the See also:Westminster See also:Gazette and republished in a brochure called The See also:Purple See also:East in 1896. These sonnets were republished with revision and considerable additions, and a See also:preface by the See also:bishop of See also:Hereford, in The Year of Shame in 1897. Whatever view was taken of the poet's incursion into politics, no one doubted his passionate sincerity, or the excellence of the poetical See also:rhetoric it inspired. In 1898 were published his Collected Poems and a volume of new See also:poetry The See also:Hope of the See also:World, which opened' with his three See also:chief philosophical poems, the title piece, " The Unknown See also:God," and " See also:Ode in May." In 1902 he printed privately 5o copies of New Poems, and published his " Ode on the See also:Coronation of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Edward VII.," a favourable specimen of its class; and in 1903 besides a volume of Selected Poems a collection of poems contributed to various See also:periodicals and called For See also:England: Poems Written During Estrangement, a poetical See also:defence of his impugned patriotism during the See also:Boer See also:War. In 1909 appeared an important volume of New Poems.
Mr Watson's poetry falls chiefly into the classes above indicated—See also:critical, philosophical and political -to which may be added a further class of Horatian epistles to his See also:friends. This See also:classification indicates the high See also:character and also the limitations of his poetry. It is contemplative, not dramatic, and only occasionally lyrical in impulse. In spite of the poet's plea in his " Apologia " that there is an ardour and a See also:fire other than that of See also:Eros or See also:Aphrodite, ardour and fire are not conspicuous qualities of his See also:verse. Except in his political verse there is more thought than See also:passion. Bearing trace enough of the influence of the romantic See also:epoch, his poetry recalls the earlier classical See also:period in its epigrammatic phrasing and Latinized diction. By the distinction and clarity of his style and the dignity of his See also:movement William Watson stands in the true classical tradition of See also:great English verse, in a See also:generation rather given over to lawlessness and experiment.
See also See also:section on William Watson in Poets of the Younger Generation, by William See also:Archer (1902) ; and for bibliography up to Aug. 1903, English Illustrated See also:Magazine, vol. See also:xxix. (N.S.), pp. 542 and 548. (W. P.
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