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Watson (SIR WILLIAM an English poet)

SIR WILLIAM, an English poet; born in Burley-in-Wharfdale, Yorkshire, England, Aug. 2, 1858. His published works include "The Prince's Quest" (1880); "Epigrams of Art" (1884); in the "National Review," a series of political sonnets, "Ver Tenebrosum" (1885); "Wordsworth's Grave and Other Poems" (1891); "Lachrymæ Musarum" (1892), an elegy on Tennyson; "Poems" (1893); "Excursions in Criticism" (1893); "The Eloping Angels" (1893); "Odes, and Other Poems" (1894); "The Purple East" (1896), an attack on the British Government for its failure to act against Turkey for the Armenian massacres; "Collected Poems" (1898); "Heralds of Dawn" (1912); "The Muse in Exile" (1913); "The Man Who Saw" (1917).