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.

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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.

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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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Theodore Watts-Dunton, himself an accomplished sonneteer, finds the sonnet as "in the literature of modern Europe, a brief poetic form of fourteen rhymed verses, ranged according to prescription."

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