MR W.T. WATTS-DUNTON.
ißy Cable.—Press Aeeociation.—Copyright.} LONDON, June 7? The death is announced of M? Walter .Theodore the eminent : :nt|Q JWfl poet; aged- seventy-eight n.TJp **!! Waltw Theodora WattsJjQrn »t Bt Ives in-1836. tat had Bpt>nt jnosfc of his Kfo'Jn t?on, somewhat elaborntp nnvato education at' Cambridge. OrifJn»«? as a naturalifit, his -'w. fl»viiiK been ait active member s jrwowfioeocieties, "he waa afterwards Drought un to the law, and passed bis ♦ < f o J? in! > tiou *? 1863 - »«> first at, the attention of the literary : ; public a<» a writer of sonnets. One of '-ft?.^ , '^ M as intprost fS h, s. early poetical work was Dante ;KOK»tti. wlipsy intimate friend Mr. •-*!*#*, becanio. Under Mr Roeetti's ;-taßuence he made a critical study of the i\m Masters in I>mnoe, Venice. a.nd f: ttoine. After Bossctti's deatli ho ex»:pounded tho principles of his art in tho ISineteenth Century" and - elsewhere. Mr WattSrPuDton, then Mr Watts, bewie'literary and .artistic critic to the ■; '«yl»mjnor" at a time when that Kper wa? boinp; brilliantly conducted JProfessor Mrntfl.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14980, 9 June 1914, Page 7
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