Theodore Watts-Dunton

Walter Theodore Watts - Dunton or Watts ( born October 12, 1832 in St. Ives, then Huntingdonshire, † June 6, 1914 in Putney ( London) ) was an English poet and critic. He is now better known as a close friend of Algernon Charles Swinburne, whom he saved from alcoholism.

His early interest in science was transformed and he became a lawyer in London. He met Dante Gabriel Rossetti know when he advised that a stolen check. Swindburne he helped by freeing him in 1872 by his publisher John Camden Hotten extortionate.

He wrote for the newspapers The Examiner and Athenaeum and contributed several articles to the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica in.

As his client and friend Swinburne threatened to succumb to alcohol, he took it to his house and took care of him. Rather unknown is that it also prevented the completion of Swinburne's sadomasochistic novel Lesbia Brandon.

In 1897, he added his last name to his mother, Dunton 's maiden name, add. In 1905 he married Clara Empire.

Works

• The Coming of Love and other poems. John Lane, London 1897.
• Aylwin. University Press, Oxford, 1950 ( Nachdr d ed London 1898).
• The Christmas Dream. London 1901.
• Poetry and The Renascence of Wonder. Kennikat Press, Port Washington, N. Y. 1970, ISBN 0-8046-1057-6 ( Nachdr d ed London 1903).
• Studies of Shakespeare. London 1910.

• William Shakespeare: The complete works. London, 1907.