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Author of the poems The Isle of Palms and The City of the Plague, of the stories Margaret Lyndsay and Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life, and of the famous Noctes Ambrosianae. His style could be tender and pathetic, but as a reviewer it was often coa.r.s.e, prejudiced, and brutal. _See Ferrier's edition, 12 vols._ _See Life, by Mrs. Gordon, 1862._ _Pub. Arm. Ca. Wid._
=Wilson, Sir Thomas.= 1523-1581. Author of The Art of Rhetoric, etc.
=Wilson, Wm.= 1801-1860. Scotch poet. _See Grant Wilson's Poets of Scotland._
=Winchelsea, Countess Anne.= c. 1700-1720. Poet. Author of The Nocturnal Reverie, etc. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 3._
=Wingate, David.= 182 Scotch poet. Author Annie Weir, etc. _See Grant Wilson's Poets of Scotland._
=Winkworth, Catherine.= 1825-1878. Hymnologist. Editor Hymns of the Ages, Lyra Germanica, etc. _Pub. Mac._
=Winslow, Forbes Benignus.= 1810-1874. Physician. Author Physic and Physicians, The Anatomy of Suicide, Lectures on Insanity, Obscure Diseases of the Brain, etc.
=Wiseman, Nicholas, Cardinal.= 1802-1865. Miscellaneous writer. Author works on religion, science, art, literature, etc.
=Wither, George.= 1588-1677. Poet. A voluminous writer, best known by his Shepherd's Resolution and The Steadfast Shepherd. Style forcible and original. _See Craik's Eng. Lit., vol. 2, and Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._
=Wolcott [w[)o]l'k[o^]t, or w[)oo]l'k[o^]t], John=, ”Peter Pindar.”
1738-1819. Poet. Author of numerous witty, satirical poems, as The Lousiad, Bozzy and Piozzi, and the Lyric Odes of Peter Pindar, many of which were in ridicule of George III.
=Wolfe, Charles.= 1791-1823. Irish poet. Author of the famous Lines on the Burial of Sir John Moore. _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 4._
=Wollstonecraft, Mary.= See G.o.dwin, Mrs. Mary.
=Wood, Anthony.= 1632-1695. Antiquary. Author Athenae Oxonienses, etc.
_See Rawlinson's Life, 1811._
=Wood, Mrs. Ellen [Price].= 182 Novelist. Of her many novels, East Lynne is the most famous. Johnny Ludlow is one of her best books.
_Pub. Di. Pet._
=Wood, Mrs. Henry.= See Wood, Mrs. Ellen.
=Wood, John George.= 182 Naturalist. Author Homes without Hands, Bible Animals, Common Objects of the Sea and Sh.o.r.e, etc. _Pub. Cas.
Har. Por. Rou._
=Woodhouselee, Lord.= See Tytler, A. F.
=Woolner, Thomas.= 182 Sculptor and poet. Author My Beautiful Lady, etc. Style delicate and pure. _Pub. Mac._
=Worboise, Mrs. Emma Jane.= 182 Novelist. Author Helen Bury, Lights and Shadows of Christian Life, Th.o.r.n.ycroft Hall, etc. _Pub.
Rou._
=Wordsworth, Chas.= 180 Bp. St. Andrew's. Son to succeeding.
Neph. to W. W. Author Shakespeare's Knowledge and Use of the Bible, The Bible in the Authorized Version with Notes and Introduction, etc.
_Pub. Dut. Mac._
=Wordsworth, Christopher.= 1774-1846. Bro. to W. W. Author Eccl.
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