“I know Keats far better through his letters than by even the ablest and most intimate memoirs.”
About William Sharp
12 September 1855–12 December 1905
William Sharp was born on 12 September 1855 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, at a time when Scotland’s industrial towns were expanding rapidly but remained surrounded, in memory and imagination, by older rural worlds. He would become one of the most energetic and versatile literary figures of the late Victorian period: a…