Alaric Alexander Watts (16 March 1797 – 5 April 1864)[1] 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:[2]
An Austrian army, awfully arrayed,
Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade.
- ^ Garnett, Richard (1899). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 60. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 65–66.
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