b. 21 September 1849. d. 16 May 1928. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, novelist, biographer, essayist, critic, and translator. Biographer of John Donne
and Algernon Swinburne. Married Ellen (Nellie) Epps on 13 August 1875. Author of *Father
and Son* (1907). Chief book reviewer of the *Sunday Times* (1919-1928). Contributed
collections of essays to American and English magazines. Friends with Henrik Ibsen;
translated many of his works and introduced him to British audiences. Closely connected
with major figures in literary and artistic circles including William Bell Scott,
Ford Madox Brown, Thomas Hardy, Robert Browning, Robert Louis Stevenson, Algernon
Charles Swinburne, Henry James. Knighted in 1925. Biographical information: *ODNB*.
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