Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-27
WRITES sONNETs BASED
/ ON NOTED WAR CARTOONS
Former English Poorhouse Boy Com
poses Verses for Louis Rae
makcrS'S Pictures.
STRANGE LITERARY TASI
Wins New Laurcls for England's
tournaments Poct'-William Dow
sing Composcs While Forging
IIoWitZcrS.

ny HAYDEN CHURCH.

by HAYDEN CHURCH.
makers the Dutch artist whose merci-
less anti-German cartoons did 50 much
70 intame world fSs! ai a aga ms n, SnS
sincere or more striking ccmnlmcnt
than is, represented by Tho contents Of Of
these half dozen lip,r volumes are
the work OF One OK me noci mosi wh SS'FH n
writing them, undertook wha; is UNI
doubtedly the ,stranEcst of literary
tasks that have been attempted during
the course OF the war that has yust
The poets name IS William Dowslng,
DowssaI's favor!te form Of literary
+ after Eaemak -rs's wonderful cartoons
began - appear he decided TO com,
pose sonnet 70 accompany, each and
. ! am not sure exactly how many
cartoons the. Dutch artist has pro:
HonSi S asanst 'E nH 6a the S Enc
lish weekly. Land and Water, which
has he sole right, Of publishing, them
mastery. sa,ires, Willam powsing has
composed all accompanying sonnet.
Is, personally arst heard Of these
f; Tonnsts by means of, a review in the
London Times Time OF the six volumes
public. The Times as everybody
knows, does not distribute praise
that. If ". Rnenakerss fertility in
des iEninS cartoons was remarkable.
still moro remarkable is M-. bows
with sonnet" adding the quality
& ,, in% ;o wo6 r. o is sgTPpTrisi9gly Level
quoted and indicated that ii il was
representative. as the Critics estimate
mace EVIDENT, these compositions were
+. certainly the work of finished. If not
INSPIRED. literary artist.
That anybody, whoever he might be-
aaG written sonnet for every one
OF Raenakers's cartoons suggested
WhAt We newspaper men call a story"
+ and what further whetted ones curl
I. .Timess mention that the volumes we're
, ,pupHshsd by the poet himself. and that
his, address was care Vickers. Lin
sIed: River Don Don Works, Brighisidc,
: ,ol course the great ornaments max
+, ms and shipbutld!ng firm. in which
, the late 81! Hiram Maxim was so
I. !aTse!! interested. and which has pro-
. 'nnced SO large q percentage of til @
big guns and other engines of war
--Ased by this country in the late ''un.
hAsT PLACE IN WORLD
TO LOOK FoR POET
Vickers is abou; the las, place in
ne world which one would expect to be
"a. aaoFess OF poet, LEI alone a SON
saw. notices of William Dowsing:s
siN volumes, which are all called War
her. NJ. oon mre and in all cases
as TO ms identity or personality there
Was not word All that emerged
was the fact that he was employed ~
. Sickers. Limited, but whether Ills iNh
was a big one or a little one non
81 ,he reviewers. quite evidently,
means. but that WINS DIV bvnnIhesis
Ina. as II proved. mistaken one. So
us.GF'nlned 10 write the sonncteer
nimseif ana ask him quite rrnnLi,.
. who and what he was. apart rrnr, ~,
ING sonnetecr ' NC
,alo nt result was an uncommonly in
!rS'stihS discovery William povsin ~
- NOT one of the directors or vjri,,.S
hc,ls one OF its employees. part of ~
h 'e' i iUoa was spent i'll a poorhouse. and
u n'ea in mean street" Ana 90,
H.'he is ali bu, unknown 10 i i,rm yet,
nneT"ry critics. who probably do 40,
MI, "oeF IN him the author of vol.
'uilcS OF poems which many ar ~
Erased laV!shiy when they we're issnn,i
some years ago, in his own djstric, J. y.
Trnn ~ rom being a prophet without
proft, Ar,is @iti!, II apr2ars. without
~ Nithont stint, the Sh.iIiriI T.,
.pr.Iaehl' one of The leading ncws.
em , IN the north OF Englnnd
s,iyHS othcr periodicals, having \ ,ii
nlhl as The Steel City's .,nn.t n"' ~!
49,, since the days OF James Mnn,'
ana 49, -. Tact modern Eliot,
Ly,.rE
form and!coi'.n-!, tteF have as muCr
,,si,..s ~" color as tho cartoons ,hc,n
Wjiris,, , tnroush correspondcnce w iit'-
~ man, az. DowsinS | CLEANED sono,i'i.,,,a
me extraordinary his,or, n, mn :
and d iuis, SOM inNling Of his ;ri,,m,,;,.
haym 80 i. i'i"'n tN."niS. and since th"r
man hlmse!i--Sccn him ~ tn'
Ill nlchers works amid "thn ~,
as he hl,n"nIIe pass .s 81 the rolling mills
IN ms humble home. yyhorn hn" iai"i
ms literary treasures ne Nee?'
reers 81 PIN. t tuFesqucncss the "a
mat OF William powsin,.' lets rva
SSthltfcs, however. recall iho@.' "Se al
in a M "Ho once was a glass-wnshc
~, me so-callcd NAVY Pn," NC
"ks sGtGS,e' onh a aranhic writer or ' w,
fTTf rarnn r 2a9 w,llan Il bavi%cs, W. iG
iioF years hut is now onn M moo
and AID" T tGH"sed masters Of English vers So
hecn officially recorniIc6 Iy ~, t,tt na -
,hhs 10 nm Of civil I.isi n,Ga : AN l
'Hy brltiSh government ''''"'"h
Lng!and's "Arnamcn,e po,.o
nis"t call William Dowsiny as on
VIZ NS o! ork Where he was born ~ ~
i Ing s,ss 90 iie springs from thc wmr III
80 lass ana mas remained la h; y.
Ter inc death OF his father vi ~
b ba a9f! my han1sman, his mother fcu '" a a
80 -. sghS' mad TO tramp the con-, =
TitH her, gypsy fashion - ,TSuHii
rrES,tIe'e FAMILY was obligcd 10 TAX ,iit'
r. VEG IN the Sheffield War! bc 80 Is
Jne worhhouse school was ~. 0 W., n no . 80
nh M SPOT IN life % little Wi! b"ws sIi,
az ~" Mns horn with a passion for Hn6jE.
~. !taNlhR the Union" wi ri -,
homier name by which EnsilsF ,So,,h
losini, 90; he got his drst job-|fn
t1a' mine nc worked for ci.b, IN. u. }
a ar n the the intervals Of waitlns II r.
an iEht a copy Of watt. "i,,iii.., ~
~, ,..' 81 the Mind" From The dr. NIL nl
n; "emt 70 botte factory ana
q eni times he has haen "i iai,,
ia a NAVY, a macninist ana
~, yrs helper For the pa.
cnp.3yed At the Frcat works ~ vieey
ca ..n. sons ana Maxim IIc Mas nrs,
;p,t ptr.ha impress ionist bu, is no
IN me ordnance department ana ,.i,
hrst sought him. was one Of a ,,,,,
per OF men working on a big gun "''
WENT THROUGH "rARADIsE
., LOST TEN TIM
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