The Prince’s Quest

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The Prince's Quest is a work by Sir William Watson, an English author known for his lyrical and political verse. Published in 1880, this particular work is noted for being in the Pre-Raphaelite style. Watson's later poetry often focused on current affairs and political commentary, but The Prince's Quest represents an earlier, more aesthetic phase of his writing.1

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Sir William Watson
His first volume, The Prince’s Quest (1880), was in the Pre-Raphaelite manner. Thereafter he became a poet of statement, concerned with current affairs. Watson’s Wordsworth’s Grave (1890), his Lachrymae Musarum (1892; on the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the poet laureate), and his coronation ode for King Edward…
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His first volume, The Prince’s Quest (1880), was in the Pre-Raphaelite manner. Thereafter he became a poet of statement, concerned with current affairs. Watson’s Wordsworth’s Grave (1890), his Lachrymae Musarum (1892; on the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the poet laureate), and his coronation ode for King Edward…
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