Who is William Sidney Walker

William Sidney Walker (1795–1846) was an English Shakespearean critic.LifeBorn at Pembroke in Wales, on 4 December 1795, he was the eldest child of John Walker, a naval officer, who died at Twickenham in 1811 from the effects of wounds received in action. The boy was named after his godfather, Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, under whom his father had served. His mother's maiden name was Falconer. William Sidney, always called Sidney, spent some years at a school at Doncaster, kept by his mother's brother, and with a private tutor at Forest Hill; he then entered Eton College in 1811. At Eton he learnt the whole of Homer by heart, and wrote Greek verse with facility. There, too, he began lifelong friendships with Winthrop Mackworth Praed and John Moultrie.Walker, small, uncouth and absent-minde...
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William Sidney Walker Poems

• Too Solemn For Day, Too Sweet For Night
  Too solemn for day, too sweet for night,
  Come not in darkness, come not in light;
  But come in some twilight interim,
  When the gloom is soft, and the light is dim....

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