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

Eventually, he retired to the country for his health under the care of a proper Victorian solicitor-scholar named Theodore Watts-Dunton.

From Time Magazine Archive

Watts-Dunton had more than a passing interest in science, whereas, to Swinburne it was anathema, although his father was strongly scientific in his learning. 

From Old Familiar Faces by Watts-Dunton, Theodore

As artist, poet, and craftsman, however, Watts-Dunton spoke with enthusiasm of Morris; p. 10but intellectually he regarded him as inferior to Mrs. Morris. 

From Old Familiar Faces by Watts-Dunton, Theodore

Of these Mr. Watts-Dunton and Mr. Augustine Birrell have been the most assiduous. 

From The Life of George Borrow by Shorter, Clement K.

Watts-Dunton could not understand the value of impassioned prose or its right to be called poetry.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert