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Watts-Dunton, Theodore
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Watts-Dunton, Theodore (Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton), 1832–1914, English poet, novelist, and critic. A member of the staff of the Examiner (1874–76), he became editor of the Athenaeum (1876–98). He was the benefactor of Swinburne Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837–1909, English poet and critic. His poetry is noted for its vitality and for the music of its language. After attending Eton (1849–53) and Oxford (1856–60) he settled in London on an allowance from his father.
..... Click the link for more information. , whose life he organized and who lived with him from 1879 to 1909. Watts-Dunton edited many literary classics and contributed important articles to The Encyclopaedia Britannica. Among his works are The Coming of Love (1897); Aylwin (1898), a romantic novel about Gypsies; The Christmas Dream (1901); and Old Familiar Faces (1916), a volume of recollections.

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See biography by J. Douglas (1904, repr. 1973); M. Beerbohm, "No. 2 The Pines," in And Even Now (1920); M. Panter-Downes, At the Pines (1971).
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For most modern readers of Victorian literature, the name Theodore Watts-Dunton carries little weight; if he is registered at all, it is as a peripheral figure--a friend of the Pre-Raphaelites and the companion of Swinburne in his latter years.
Theodore Watts-Dunton's Aylwin (1898) and the reduplications of ... by Maxwell, Catherine / Yearbook of English Studies
How much further than the mere distances of time seemed to separate the old man, taking his daily walk across Wimbledon Common and peering affectionately into the pink baby faces in the prams, from the nerve-jerked young pursuer of the pinkly naked Mazeppa - Adah Isaacs Menken - the self-poisoning alcoholic, and the submissive, brothel-hopping flagellant, who had been rescued into the safe dullness of longevity by fussy-bossy Theodore Watts-Dunton.
A.C. Swinburne: A Poet's Life by Whittington-Egan, Richard / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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