Watson, WILLIAM, the son of a Wharfedale farmer, born 2d August 1858, published The Prince's Quest (1880) and Epigrams of Art, Life, and Nature (1884), but first attracted notice by Wordsworth's Grave (1890). Odes and other Poems appeared in 1894, The Father of the Forest in 1895, The Purple East (sonnets on the Armenian atrocities) in 1896, The Hope of the World (1897), and a collected edition of his Works in 1898. He also issued a volume of Excursions in Criticism (1893).
Watson, WILLIAM
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