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English critic and poet.
Theodore Watts-Dunton was an English poet, novelist, and literary critic.
Theodore Watts-Dunton was an author and critic, perhaps best known for his notable literary friendships. Born in Huntingdonshire and educated at Cambridge, he worked in the office of his solicitor father, and became a solicitor himself; he gave up the practice to devote his life to literature. He wrote literary criticism, poetry, and the popular novel Aylwin, and was a popular columnist noted for his critical acumen. He also formed close friendships with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and later Algernon Charles Swinburne; he acted as Swinburne's agent, and later had the poet move in with him to care for his poor health and alcoholism.
Theodore Watts-Dunton, novelist and critic, was educated at Cambridge and practiced as a solicitor in London. Watts-Dunton published contributions to The Athenaeum; wrote some Shakespearean criticism; wrote a volume of poetry and a novel, Aylwin (1898), which includes a thinly disguised portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He also maintained an interest in gypsy life and edited George Borrow's Lavengro (1893) and The Romany rye (1900).
Theodore Watts-Dunton was an English pre-Raphaelit critic and poet. He is best remembered as the friend and caregiver of poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, whom he rescued from alcoholism.
Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832-1914) was an English critic and poet. He was close friends with English poets Alfred Lord Tennyson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Algernon Charles Swinburne.
William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919) was an English writer and critic, brother to poets Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and a founding member of the group known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
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