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Biography, etc.

=Wordsworth, Christopher.= 180 Bp. Lincoln. Son to preceding.

Author Hist. Church in Ireland, Memoirs Wm. Wordsworth, etc. _Pub.

Dut._

=Wordsworth, Wm.= 1770-1850. His poems number in all 485, including the long poems, The Excursion, Peter Bell, White Doe, and the Prelude.

The best of his verse is contained in the Ode on Immortality, Tintern Abbey, Ode to Duty, Laodamia, The Cuckoo, Lucy, and a few of the Sonnets, some of which are nearly perfect of their kind. Much of his verse contains little of real interest, but his best is poetry of the very highest type. _See Grosart's complete edition, 1875._ _See Lives, by Bp. Wordsworth, Phillips, and Paxton Hood; also, Myers's Wordsworth, in Eng. Men of Letters, Ma.s.son's Essays, and Shairp's Studies in Poetry._ _Pub. Hou. Mac. Por. Rou._

=Worsley, Philip Stanhope.= ---- 1866. Poet. Translator of the Iliad.

=Wotton, Sir Henry.= 1586-1639. Poet and miscellaneous writer. His most familiar poem is the one beginning, ”How happy is he born and taught.” _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 2._

=Wotton, Wm.= 1666-1726. Author of the Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning, one of the original sources of the Boyle and Bentley controversy.

=Wrangham, Francis.= 1769-1843. Poet and translator from the cla.s.sics.

=Wraxall, Sir Fred'k Chas. Lascelles.= 1828-1865. Novelist. Author Wild Oats, Camp Life, Memoirs Queen Hortense, etc.

=Wraxall, Sir Nathaniel.= 1751-1831. Historical writer. Author Memoirs Kings of France, Hist. France, Historical Memoirs of my own Time, etc.

=Wright, Thomas.= 181 Archaeologist. Author Domestic Manners in England in the Middle Ages, Wanderings of an Antiquary, Hist. of Caricature and the Grotesque, Womankind in Western Europe, etc. _Pub.

Apl._

=Wright, Wm. Aldis.= 183 Shakespearean scholar. Co-editor with Clark of the Cambridge Shakespeare, 9 vols., 1866, and of the Globe Shakespeare.

=Wyatt, Sir Thomas.= 1503-1542. Poet. Author of love lyrics, one of the finest being Forget not yet the Tried Intent. _See Poems with Memoir, 1831._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1._ _Pub. Hou._

=Wycherley [w[)i]tch-[e)]r-l[)i]], Wm.= 1640-1715. Dramatist. The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer are the best of his plays, all of which are witty, sprightly, and immoral. _See edition of 1831, with Congreve, Farquhar, and Vanbrugh._ _Pub. Ron._

=Wyckliffe.= See Wiclif, John.

=Wynter, Andrew.= 1819-1876. Miscellaneous writer. Author Our Social Bees, Curiosities of Civilization, Borderlands of Insanity, etc. _Pub.

Put._

=Yates, Edmund Hodgson.= 183 Novelist. Author Black Sheep, The Yellow Flag, Kissing the Rod, Wrecked in Port, etc. _Pub. Apl. Har.

Rou._

=Yonge [y[)u]ng], Charles Duke.= 181 Historian. Author Hist.

British Navy, Hist. Eng. Revolution of 1688, Hist. France Under the Bourbons, Three Centuries of Modern Hist., etc. _Pub. Apl. Har._

=Yonge, Charlotte Mary.= 182 Novelist. Cousin to C. D. Y. An industrious writer, of whose 50 vols. more than 30 are fictions. The Heir of Redclyffe is her most noted book; others are Heartsease, Hopes and Fears, and The Daisy Chain. Her work is all careful, well intentioned, and strongly High Church in character. _Pub. Apl. Dut.

Est. Har. Ho. Lip. Lo. Mac. Phi. Rob_.

=Youatt [yoo'[a)]t], Wm.= 1777-1847. Veterinary writer. Author of The Horse, Cattle, Sheep, The Pig, and other similar standard works. _Pub.