William Watkiss Lloyd
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William Watkiss Lloyd was an English writer.
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.
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:
A number of manuscripts still remain unpublished, the most important of which have been bequeathed to the British Museum
, amongst them being:
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to Lloyd's (posthumously published) Elijah Fenton: his Poetry and Friends (1894), containing a list of published and unpublished works.
He was born at Homerton, Middlesex, and educated at Newcastle-under-Lyme
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Newcastle-under-Lyme is a market town in Staffordshire, England, and is the principal town of the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme. It is part of The Potteries Urban Area and North Staffordshire. In the 2001 census the town had a population of 73,944...
independent school
Independent school
An independent school is a school that is independent in its finances and governance; it is not dependent upon national or local government for financing its operations, nor reliant on taxpayer contributions, and is instead funded by a combination of tuition charges, gifts, and in some cases the...
. At the age of fifteen he entered a family business in London
London
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, with which he was connected for thirty-five years. He devoted his leisure to the study of art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
, architecture
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
, archaeology
Archaeology
Archaeology, or archeology , is the study of human society, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes...
, Shakespeare, classical and modern languages and literature. He died in London.
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 RaphaelRaphaelRaffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...
] (1865), which excited considerable attention from the manner in which theological questions were discussed - The History of Sicily to the Athenian War (1872)
- Panics and their Panaceas (1869)
- an edition of Much Ado about NothingMuch Ado About NothingMuch Ado About Nothing is a comedy written by William Shakespeare about two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero....
, "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
British Museum
The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its...
, 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.