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.
Poems by this Poet
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| The Princes' Qust - Part the Fourth | 31 July 2013 |
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| To James Bromley With 'Wordsworth's Grave | 31 July 2013 |
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| Beethoven | 31 July 2013 |
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| Liberty Rejected | 31 July 2013 |
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| Reluctant Summer | 31 July 2013 |
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| The Key-Board | 31 July 2013 |
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| The Questioner | 31 July 2013 |
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| To Lord Tennyson | 31 July 2013 |
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| Changed Voices | 31 July 2013 |
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| Liege | 31 July 2013 |
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