| 词条 | William Cosmo Monkhouse |
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| honorific_prefix = | name = William Cosmo Monkhouse | honorific_suffix = | image = William Cosmo Monkhouse by John McLure Hamilton.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = William Cosmo Monkhouse by John McLure Hamilton[1] | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1840|3|18}} | birth_place = London, U.K. | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1901|7|20|1840|3|18}} | death_place = | death_cause = | nationality = English | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = Poet and art critic | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | television = | title = | spouse = Laura Keymer (first wife), Leonora Eliza Blount (second wife) | children = | parents = Cyril John Monkhouse (father) | relatives = | awards = }}William Cosmo Monkhouse (18 March 1840 – 20 July 1901) was an English poet and critic.[2] BiographyMonkhouse was born and raised in London. His father, Cyril John Monkhouse, was a solicitor, and his mother's maiden name was Delafosse. Monkhouse was educated at St Paul's School, stopped his schooling at the age of seventeen to enter the board of trade as a junior supplementary clerk, from which grade he rose eventually to be the assistant-secretary to the finance department of the office. In 1870–71 he visited South America in connection with the hospital accommodation for seamen at Valparaíso, Chile, and other ports; he served on different departmental committees, notably that of 1894–96 on the Mercantile Marine Fund. Monkhouse was twice married: first, to Laura, daughter of James Keymer of Dartford; and, secondly, to Leonora Eliza, daughter of Commander Blount, R.N. Cosmo Monkhouse was one of those who not only have a vocation, but an avocation. Cosmo's first bias was to poetry, and in 1865 he issued A Dream of Idleness and Other Poems, a collection strongly coloured by his admiration for Wordsworth and Tennyson. It was marked by exceptional maturity, and scarcely received the recognition it deserved. Perhaps owing to this circumstance, it was not until 1890 that he put forth Corn and Poppies; a collection which contains at least one memorable effort in the well-known "Dead March." Five years later, a limited edition of the striking ballad of The Christ upon the Hill appeared; it was illustrated with etchings by William Strang. After Cosmo's death, his poetical output was completed by Pasiteles the Elder and other Poems (including The Christ upon the Hill). In 1868 Monkhouse wrote a novel, A Question of Honour. Then, after preluding with a Life of Turner in the "Great Artists Series" (1879), he devoted himself almost exclusively to art criticism. Besides many contributions to the Academy, Saturday Review, Magazine of Art and other periodicals, he published volumes on The Italian Pre-Raphaelites (1887), The Earlier English Water-Colour Painters (1890 and 1897), In the National Gallery (1895) and British Contemporary Artists (1899). He wrote a monograph on the illustrator of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland entitled 1901). He was a contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography from the beginning. Monkhouse also wrote a life of Leigh Hunt in the "Great Writers Series" (1887).[3] He wrote a monograph on Chinese ceramics entitled A history and description of Chinese Porcelain, (London; Chapman, 1901). As an art critic Monkhouse's judgments were highly valued; and he had the rare gift of differing without offending, while he invariably secured respect for his honesty and ability. As a poet, his ambition was wide and his devotion to the art thorough. Monkhouse died at Skegness on 2 July 1901.[4] FamilyHe was twice married: first in 1865 to Laura, daughter of James Keymer of Dartford in Kent; second in 1873 to Leonora Eliza, the daughter of Commander Blount, R.N., by whom he had two sons and six daughters.[4] Notes{{wikisource author}}1. ^National Portrait Gallery, London 2. ^Chisholm, 1911 3. ^{{citation | last = Monkhouse | first =William Cosmo | last2=Anderson|first2=John Parker | title =Life of Leigh Hunt|year = 1893 | place= London| publisher=Walter Scott Ltd. | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=PztIAAAAIAAJ}} 4. ^1 Dobson, 1912 References
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