Toynbee, William (M)

Surname: Toynbee
Forename(s): William
b. 1849. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, editor, and translator. Studied at the Inner Temple and was called to the bar in 1881. Worked as a equity draftsman and conveyancer. Became director of the Land & House Property Corporation Ltd in 1904 and director of the Neuchatel Asphalt Co. Ltd in 1906. Author of several volumes of poetry including Song-words (1888), Lays of Common Life (1890), An Oaten Flute and Other Versicles (1897), Rhymes of City and Countryside, and Other Verse (1907), and Glimpses of the Twenties (1909). Translator of Songs of Béranger (1892). Edited The Diaries of William Charles Macready, 1833-1851 (1912). Biographical information: World Cat (4 July 2021); Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry, p. 477. (CC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 10
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
The Last Flight 1888-11 The Cornhill Magazine Poet 12329
Passed On! 1888-12 The Argosy Poet 16682
On Ahead! 1889-05 The Cornhill Magazine Poet 12410
The Land of Morn 1889-08 The Argosy Poet 16703
Nobody Cares! 1891-02 The Cornhill Magazine Poet 12298
“Beside the Dying Ember” 1892-01 Victorian Magazine Poet 1519
“Beside the Dying Embers” 1893-02 The Argosy Poet 16836
“Going Home” 1893-02 Temple Bar Poet 18143
Answered 1893-03 The Argosy Poet 16839
A Serenade 1894-10 The Argosy Poet 16885