Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1919 — NOTED MEN NAMED WILLIAM [ARTICLE]

NOTED MEN NAMED WILLIAM

Long List of Those Who Attained the Front Rank as Writers, Poets and Statesmen. There have been more famous Williams than men of any other name, and the majority of these Williams have been writers, poets and statesmen. but rarely musicians, for William is evidently not a musical name. The list of poets is a long one: William Shakespeare, the greatest English writer; William Cowper, the English poet who wrote “On Receipt of My Mother’s Picture William Wordsworth, the English poet, who wrote “Lucy Grey;” William Blake, who w T rote “The Marriage of Hell and Heaven;’.’ William Collins, the English writer; William Morris, the preRaphaelite, who began life as a designer, Invented the morris chair and translated several volumes from the Icelandic; William Allingham, the Irish poet, who wrote “Lovely Mary Donnelly;” Willinm Yeats, the Irish playwright, and the American poet, William Cullen Bryant, who wrote “Lines to a Water Fowl.” Besides these poets we have the prose writers: William Makepeace Thackeray, England’s second greatest novelist, and who wrote “Vanity Fair;” William Rossetti, brother of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and the great art critic; William Dean Howells, the American novelist; William Hail Caine, the novelist known jxs Hall Caine, and William Sharp, the Irish writer, who wrote under the name of Fiona Macleod.