Introduction

Biography

William was the hus­band of Ade­line Mau­reen Pring (mar­ried 1909).

He was knight­ed in 1917.

Works

• The Prince’s Quest, 1880
• Wordsworth’s Grave and Oth­er Po­ems, 1890
• Epigrams of Art, Life and Na­ture, 1894
• Odes and Oth­er Po­ems, 1894
• Lachrymæ Mu­sa­rum and Oth­er Po­ems (New York & Lon­don, : Mac­mil­lan, 1892)
• The Pur­ple East: A Ser­ies of Son­nets on Eng­land’s De­ser­tion of Ar­me­nia, 1896
• For Eng­land: Po­ems Wri­tten Dur­ing Es­trange­ment, 1893
• The Muse in Ex­ile (New York: John Lane, 1913)