- William Watkiss Lloyd
William Watkiss Lloyd (
11 March 1813 -22 December 1893 ), was an English writer.He was born at Homerton, Middlesex, and educated at
Newcastle-under-Lyme independent school . At the age of fifteen he entered a family business inLondon , with which he was connected for thirty-five years. He devoted his leisure to the study ofart ,architecture ,archaeology ,Shakespeare , classical and modern languages and literature. He died in London.The work for which he is best known is "The Age of Pericles" (1875), a work notable for its scholarship and thorough appreciation of the period with which it deals, but rendered unattractive by a difficult and at times obscure style. He wrote also:
*"Xanthian Marbles" (1845)
*"Critical Essays upon Shakespeare's Plays" (1875)
*"Christianity in the Cartoons [ofRaphael ] " (1865), which excited considerable attention from the manner in which theological questions were discussed
*"The History of Sicily to the Athenian War" (1872)
*"Panics and their Panaceas" (1869)
*an edition of "Much Ado about Nothing ", "now first published in fully recovered metrical form" (1884)--(the author held that all the plays were originally written in blank verse)A number of manuscripts still remain unpublished, the most important of which have been bequeathed to theBritish Museum , amongst them being:
*"A Further History of Greece"
*"The Century of Michael Angela"
*"The Neo-Platonists"See "Memoir" by Sophia Beale prefixed to Lloyd's (posthumously published) "Elijah Fenton: his Poetry and Friends" (1894), containing a list of published and unpublished works.----
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