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William Cosmo Monkhouse (
March 18,
1840 –
July 20,
1901),
English poet and
critic, was born in
London.
His father, Cyril John Monkhouse, was a
solicitor; his mother's maiden name was Delafosse. He was educated at
St Paul's School, quitting it at seventeen to enter the board of trade as a junior supplementary clerk, from which grade he rose eventually to be the assistant-secretary to the, finance department of the office. In 1870-1871 he visited
South America in connection with the hospital accommodation for seamen at
Valparaíso,
Chile and, other ports; and he served on different departmental committees, notably that of 1894-1896 On the Mercantile Marine Fund. He was twice married: first, to Laura, daughter of James Keymer of
Dartford; and, secondly, to Leonora Eliza, daughter of Commander Blount, R.N.
Cosmo Monkhouse was one of those who have not only a vocation, but an avocation. His first bias was to poetry, and in 1865 he issued
A Dream of Idleness and Other Poems, a collection strongly coloured by his admiration for
Wordsworth and
Tennyson. It was marked by exceptional maturity, and scarcely received the recognition it deserved. Owing perhaps to this circumstance, it wasn't till 1890 that he put forth
Corn and Poppies, a collection which contains at least one memorable effort in the well-known "Dead March." Five years later appeared a limited edition of the striking ballad of
The Christ upon the Hill, illustrated with etchings by
William Strang. After his death his poetical output was completed by
Pasiteles the Elder and other Poems (including
The Christ upon the Hill).
In 1868 Monkhouse wrote a novel,
A Question of Honour. Then, after preluding with a
Life of Turner in the "Great Artists Series" (1879), he devoted himself almost exclusively to art criticism. Besides many contributions to the
Academy, the
Saturday Review, the
Magazine of Art and other periodicals, he published volumes on
The Italian Pre-Raphaelites (1887),
The Earlier English Water-Colour Painters (1890 and 1897),
In the National Gallery (1895) and
British Contemporary Artists (1899). He was a contributor to the
Dict. of Nat. Biog. from the beginning. Monkhouse also wrote an excellent Memoir of
Leigh Hunt in the "Great Writers Series" (1887).
As an art critic Monkhouse's judgments were highly valued; and he'd the rare gift of differing without offending, while he invariably secured respect for his honesty and ability. As a poet, his ambition was wide and his devotion to the art thorough.
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