William Allingham

William Allingham
Born(1824-03-19)19 March 1824
Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland
Died18 November 1889(1889-11-18) (aged 65)
Hampstead, London
NationalityIrish[a]
Occupation(s)poet, scholar
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(m. 1874⁠–⁠1889)​

William Allingham (19 March 1824 – 18 November 1889) was an Irish poet, diarist and editor. He wrote several volumes of lyric verse, and his poem "The Faeries" was much anthologised. But he is better known for his posthumously published Diary,[1] in which he records his lively encounters with Tennyson, Carlyle and other writers and artists. His wife, Helen Allingham, was a well-known watercolourist and illustrator.[2]


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  1. ^ William Allingham. A Diary; edited by H. Allingham and D. Radford (1907 and reprints).
  2. ^ I. Ousby (ed.): The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (1995), p. 18.