An 1880 portrait of William Allingham by his wife Helen (Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, on loan to the University of Delaware Library)

William Allingham (March 19, 1824 or 1828 - November 18, 1889) was an Irish man of letters and poet. Publis Domain 1880 portrait of william allingham by hei wife Helen from http://images. ... Publis Domain 1880 portrait of william allingham by hei wife Helen from http://images. ... March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). ... 1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1828 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

He was born at Ballyshannon, Donegal, and was the son of the manager of a local bank who was of English descent. He obtained a post in the custom-house of his native town and held several similar posts in Ireland and England until 1870, when he had retired from the service, and became sub-editor of Fraser's Magazine, which he edited from 1874 to 1879, in succession to James Froude. He had published a volume of Poems in 1850, followed by Day and Night Songs, a volume containing many charming lyrics, in 1855. Allingham was on terms of close friendship with DG Rossetti, who contributed to the illustration of the Songs. His Letters to Allingham (1854-1870) were edited by Dr Birkbeck Hill in 1897. Lawrence Bloomfield in Ireland, his most ambitious, though not his most successful work, a narrative poem illustrative of Irish social questions, appeared in 1864. He also edited The Ballad Book for the Golden Treasury series in 1864. The River Erne in Ballyshannon Ballyshannon (Béal Atha Seanaidh in Irish) is a town in County Donegal, Ireland. ... Donegal (Dún na nGall in Irish) is a town in County Donegal, Ireland. ... Custom House is an area of the London Borough of Newham. ... Frasers Magazine for Town and Country was a general and literary journal. ... James Anthony Froude (April 23, 1818 - October 20, 1894) was an English historian, the brother of William Froude, the engineer and naval architect. ... Dante Gabriel Rossetti (May 12, 1828 - April 10, 1882) was an English poet, painter and translator. ... George Birkbeck Norman Hill (June 11, 1835 - February 27, 1904), English author, son of Arthur Hill, head master of Bruce Castle school, was born at Tottenham, Middlesex. ...

Allingham married in 1874 Helen Paterson, known under her married name as a water-colour painter. He died at Hampstead. 1874 (MDCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Helen Allingham (née Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson) (September 26, 1848 - September 28, 1926), was a well-known watercolour painter and illustrator of the Victorian era. ... Hampstead is a place in the London Borough of Camden and is close to Hampstead Heath. ...

Though working on an unostentatious scale, Allingham produced much excellent lyrical and descriptive poetry, and the best of his pieces are thoroughly national in spirit and local colouring. His verse is clear, fresh, and graceful.

Other works are Fifty Modern Poems (1865), Songs, Poems, and Ballads (1877), Evil May Day (1883), Blackberries (1884), Irish Songs and Poems (1887), and Varieties in Prose (1893). 1865 (MDCCCLXV) is a common year starting on Sunday. ... 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

William Allingham: a Diary (1907), edited by Mrs Allingham and D Radford, contains many interesting reminiscences of Tennyson, Carlyle and other famous contemporaries. Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (August 6, 1809 - October 6, 1892) is generally regarded as one of the greatest English poets. ... The most familiar view of Carlyle is as the bearded sage with a penetrating gaze. ...

The Ulster poet John Hewitt felt Allingham's influence keenly, and his attempts to revive his reputation included editing and writing an introduction to The Poems of William Allingham (Oxford University Press/ Dolmen Press, 1967) John Harold Hewitt (October 28, 1907 - June 1987) who was born and lived in Belfast, Northern Ireland, was the most significant Ulster poet to emerge before the Sixties generation of Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Michael Longley . ...

External links

• Works by William Allingham at Project Gutenberg

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References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.