William Watkiss Lloyd
William Watkiss Lloyd (11 March 1813 - 22 December 1893), was an English writer.[1]
He was born at Homerton, Middlesex, and educated at Newcastle-under-Lyme independent school. At the age of fifteen he entered a family business in London, with which he was connected for thirty-five years. He devoted his leisure to the study of art, architecture, archaeology, Shakespeare, classical and modern languages and literature. He died in London.[2]
The work for which he is best known is The Age of Pericles (1875), a work notable for its scholarship and thorough appreciation of the period with which it deals, but rendered unattractive by a difficult and at times obscure style. He wrote also:
- Xanthian Marbles (1845)
- Critical Essays upon Shakespeare's Plays (1875)
- Christianity in the Cartoons [of Raphael] (1865), which excited considerable attention from the manner in which theological questions were discussed
- The History of Sicily to the Athenian War (1872)[3]
- Panics and their Panaceas (1869)
- an edition of Much Ado about Nothing, "now first published in fully recovered metrical form" (1884)--(the author held that all the plays were originally written in blank verse)
A number of manuscripts still remain unpublished, the most important of which have been bequeathed to the British Museum, amongst them being:
- A Further History of Greece
- The Century of Michael Angelo
- The Neo-Platonists
See Memoir by Sophia Beale prefixed to Lloyd's (posthumously published) Elijah Fenton: his Poetry and Friends (1894), containing a list of published and unpublished works.[4]
References
- ^ "LLOYD, WILLIAM WATKISS". Dictionary of national biography,. 22: pages 974–975. 1909.
{{cite journal}}:|pages=has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ The history of Sicily to the Athenian war: with elucidations of the Sicilian odes of Pindar, William Watkiss Lloyd / J. Murray, 1872 - History - 396 pages
- ^ Lloyd, W. W. (1894). "In Memoriam. William Watkiss Lloyd, by Sylvia Beale". Elijah Fenton: His Poetry and Friends. Hanley: Allbut & Daniel. pp. 125–143.
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