- William Watson (poet)
Sir William Watson (1858 –
August 11 ,1935 ), was an English poet, popular in his time for the political content of his verse. He was born inBurley in Wharfedale , inYorkshire .He was very much on the traditionalist wing of English poetry. He was a prolific poet of the 1890s, and a contributor to "
The Yellow Book ", without 'decadent' associations. He was also a defender ofAlfred, Lord Tennyson , as he dropped out of fashion.Works
*"The Prince's Quest and Other Poems" (1880)
*"Epigrams of Art, Life and Nature" (1884)
*"Wordsworth’s Grave and Other Poems" (1890)
*"Poems" (1892)
*"Lachrymae Musarum" (1892)
*"Lyric Love: An Anthology" (1892)
*"Eloping Angels : A Caprice" (1893)
*"The Poems of William Watson" (1893)
*"Excursions in Criticism: Being Some Prose Recreations Of A Rhymer" (1893)
*"Odes and Other Poems" (1894)
*"The Father of the Forest & Other Poems" (1895)
*"The Purple East: A Series Of Sonnets On England's Desertion of Armenia" (1896)
*"The Year of Shame" (1897)
*"The Hope of the World and Other Poems" (1898)
*"The Collected Poems of William Watson" (1899)
*"Ode on the Coronation of King Edward VII" (1902)
*"Selected Poems" (1903)
*"For England. Poems Written During Estrangement" (1904)
*"New Poems" (1909)
*"Sable and Purple" (1910)
*"The Heralds of the Dawn: A Play in Eight Scenes" (1912)
*"The Muse in Exile" (1913)
*"Pencraft. A Plea For The Older Ways" (1916)
*"The Man Who Saw: and Other Poems Arising out of the War" (1917)
*"Retrogression and Other Poems" (1917)
*"The Superhuman Antagonists and Other Poems" (1919)References
*Jean Moorcroft Wilson (1981) "I Was an English Poet: a Critical Biography of Sir William Watson 1858-1936"
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