Alaric Alexander Watts

(1797-1864)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Watts, Alaric Alexander, 1797-1864 NRA: Watts Alaric Alexander (1797-1864) Poet and Journalist DNB: Watts, Alaric Alexander (1797-1864), journalist and poet LBT ID: AlWatts1864 VIAF ID: 49215814 LOC ID: n88224721	B/BAP: 1797-03-16 DIED: 1864-04-05
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English poet and journalist who as editor of the Literary Souvenir (1824-35) was the prime mover behind the literary annual.
REFERENCES TO Alaric Alexander Watts: William Lisle Bowles to William Jerdan, [1822] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 1: ¶ 6 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Noctes Ambrosianae XVII” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 16 (November 1824) 585-601 Found 2: ¶ 138 ¶ 140 Gerald Griffin to William Griffin, 10 November 1824 in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 2: ¶ App-A.1-1 ¶ n2 Charles Lamb to Thomas Hood, [18 September 1827] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Allan Cunningham, 24 February 1828 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to Bryan Waller Procter, 22 January 1829 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXXI. 1827-1828 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 19: Poets Ch. 7: W. H. Pyne Found 1: ¶ 2 Ch. 9: Insanity Found 1: ¶ 11 Ch. 15: Literati Found 1: ¶ 17 Ch. 18: Literary Gazette Found 1: ¶ 33 Ch. 1: Critical Glances Found 5: ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 9 ¶ 13 ¶ 14 Ch. 14: Private Life Found 1: ¶ 3 Ch. 18: Literary List Found 1: ¶ 2 Gerald Griffin Found 1: ¶ n2 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VII. Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter III Found 1: ¶ 3 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XIX. 1827-1830 Found 1: ¶ 2 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXVII. Found 1: ¶ 34 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1827 Found 1: ¶ 2 Letters: 1829 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) WILLIAM GODWIN Found 1: ¶ 8