Watts-Dunton

American  

[wots-duhn-tn] / ˈwɒtsˈdʌn tn /

noun

1. (Walter) Theodore Walter Theodore Watts, 1832–1914, English poet, novelist, and critic.

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Example Sentences

Watts-Dunton.—By kind permission of the author, given shortly before his death.

From Project Gutenberg

Since 1879 he has lived at "The Pines," on the edge of Wimbledon Common, with Mr. Watts-Dunton, in what appears to be an ideal atmosphere of sympathetic friendship.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Douglas's recent indiscretion on Theodore Watts-Dunton tells nothing of the life in this scholarly retreat, but it does contain many photogravures of the works of art, the handicraft of Rossetti largely, which adorn the dwelling with beautiful memories.

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It is a poem not unworthy of her whom the amazed world called "the miracle"; of whom in our own time that true poet and wise critic, the late Theodore Watts-Dunton, wrote:

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This type of sonnet was called by Watts-Dunton the sonnet of flow and ebb—the significance of this term being that the thought flowed to the end of the octave and ebbed from that point to the close of the sestet.

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