Birth date:
1858
Death date:
1935
Birth town:
Country:
England
Sir William Watson (1858 – 1935), was an English poet, popular in his time for the political content of his verse. He was born in Burley, in West Yorkshire.
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 of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, as he dropped out of fashion. On Tennyson's death, Watson was a strong candidate for Poet Laureate but his earlier opposition to the Boer War had made him politically unsuitable and he was passed over for Alfred Austin.
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| The Lute-Player | 31 July 2013 |
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| Under The Dark and Piny Steep | 31 July 2013 |
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| Life Without Health | 31 July 2013 |
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| The Princes Quest - Part the Sixth | 31 July 2013 |
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| At The Grave Of Charles Lamb, In Edmonton | 31 July 2013 |
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| On Exaggerated Deference To Foreign Literary Opinion | 31 July 2013 |
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| The Blind Summit | 31 July 2013 |
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| Thomas Hood | 31 July 2013 |
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| Epigrams | 31 July 2013 |
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| The Man Forsworn | 31 July 2013 |
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