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 River | 31 July 2013 |
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| The Russ at Kara | 31 July 2013 |
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| The Soudanese | 31 July 2013 |
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| The Sovereign Poet | 31 July 2013 |
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| The Turk In Armenia | 31 July 2013 |
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| The Turk In Armenia | 29 November 2013 |
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| Thomas Hood | 31 July 2013 |
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| Three Doors | 19 May 2014 |
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| Three Eternities | 31 July 2013 |
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| Three Flowers | 31 July 2013 |
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