Watts, Mrs. Anna Mary [Howitt]. 1824 ——. Artist and miscellaneous writer. Author of The Art Student in Munich, Pioneers of Spiritualism, containing Lives of Dr. Justinius Kerner and Wm. Howitt, written from the psychological point of view, etc.
Watts, Isaac. 1674–1748. Religious poet. Author Psalms and Hymns, etc. While some of his verse is hardly more than doggerel, he sometimes rises to a lofty plane of expression. See Life, by Milner, 1834. Pub. Ca. Hou. Rou.
Waugh [waw], Edwin. 1817 ——. Dialect poet. Author Lancashire Songs, etc.
Webster, Mrs. Augusta. 1840 ——. Poet. Author Dramatic Studies, Portraits, A Woman Sold, translations from Euripides, etc. Her verse is strong and original in tone. See Stedman's Victorian Poets. Pub. Mac.
Webster, John. c. 1582–1638. Dramatist. Author of the tragedies of The White Devil, Duchess of Malfy, Guise, Devil's Law Case, Appius and Virginia, etc. W. is the greatest master of the terrible among Eng. dramatists. See Dyce's edition 1830, and Hazlitt's 1857. Pub. Rou.
Wesley, Chas. 1708–1788. Hymn writer of note. See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3.
West, Gilbert. 1705–1756. Theologian and poet. Translator of Pindar and author of the able treatise Observations on the Resurrection.
Westcott, Brooke Foss. 1825 ——. Theologian. Author Hist. Canon of the New Testament, Hist. of the Eng. Bible, The Bible and the Church, etc. Pub. Har. Mac.
Westwood, Thos. 1814 ——. Poet. Author Beads from a Rosary, Quest of the Sancgreal, Berries and Blossoms, etc.
Whately [hwāt´lĭ], Richard. 1787–1863. Abp. Dublin. Essayist. Author New Testament Difficulties, Political Economy, Logic and Rhetoric, etc. A thinker of logical but unimaginative powers. See Life and Correspondence, edited by his daughter, 1864, and H. Martineau's Biographical Sketches. Pub. Ca. Dra. Har. Sh.