page_title: Alaric Alexander Watts
hierarchical_section_title: Alaric Alexander Watts
caption_attribution_description: Alaric Alexander Watts (1797–1864), an English poet and journalist.
context_page_description: Alaric Alexander Watts was a British poet and journalist, born in London. His life was dedicated to newspaper creation and editing, and he was seen as a conservative writer. It led him to bankruptcy, when a pension was awarded to him by a friend, Lord Aberdeen.
  He may now be best remembered for his alliterative poem The Siege of Belgrade, which begins with a much-quoted couplet:
  An Austrian army, awfully arrayed,
  Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade.
context_section_description: Alaric Alexander Watts (16 March 1797 – 5 April 1864) was a British poet and journalist, born in London. His life was dedicated to newspaper creation and editing, and he was seen as a conservative writer. It led him to bankruptcy, when a pension was awarded to him by a friend, Lord Aberdeen.
  He may now be best remembered for his alliterative poem The Siege of Belgrade, which begins with a much-quoted couplet:
  An Austrian army, awfully arrayed,
  Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade.
caption: Alaric Alexander Watts by William Brockedon, 1825
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