William Sidney Walker

(1795-1846)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Walker, William Sidney, 1795-1846 NRA: Walker William Sidney (1795-1846) literary scholar DNB: Walker, (William) Sidney (1795–1846), literary scholar LBT ID: WiWalke1846 VIAF ID: 10214635 LOC ID: nr98023667	B/BAP: 1795-12-04 DIED: 1846-10-15
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English poet, translator, and scholar educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge; he suffered from mental disease and his poems and work on Shakespeare's prosody were published posthumously. He contributed to the Etonian and Knight's Quarterly Review.
REFERENCES TO William Sidney Walker: 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) Preface Found 1: ¶ 5 Chapter III Found 1: ¶ 3 Chapter VIII Found 1: ¶ 6 Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 2