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William Sharp (Writer)William Sharp (12 September 1855 12 December 1905) was a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona MacLeod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime. He was also an editor of the poetry of Ossian, Walter Scott, Matthew Arnold. Algernon Swinburne and Eugene Lee-Hamilton. He was born in Paisley and educated at Glasgow Academy and Glasgow University, which he attended 1871-1872 without completing a degree. In 1872 he contracted typhoid. During 1874-5 he worked in a Glasgow law office. His health broke down in 1876 and he was sent on a voyage to Australia. In 1878 he took a position in a bank in London. He was introduced to Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Sir Noel Paton, and joined the Rossetti literary group; which included Hall Caine, Philip Bourke Marston and Swinburne. He married in 1884, and devoted himself to writing full time from 1891, travelling widely. He had a complex and ambivalent relationship with W. B. Yeats during the 1890s, as a central tension in the Celtic Revival. Yeats initially found MacLeod acceptable and Sharp not, and later fathomed their identity. Sharp found the dual personality an increasing strain. He died at Castello di Maniace, Sicily. Works - Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Record and Study (1882)
- The Human Inheritance, The New Hope, Motherhood and Other Poems (1882)
- Sopistra and Other Poems (1884);
- Earth's Voices (1884) poems
- Sonnets of this century (1886) editor
- Sea-Music: An Anthology of Poems (1887)
- Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1887)
- Romantic Ballads and Poems of Phantasy (1888)
- Sport of chance (1888) novel
- Life of Heinrich Heine (1888)
- American Sonnets (1889)
- Life of Robert Browning (1889)
- The Children of Tomorrow (1889)
- Sospiri di Roma (1891) poems
- Life of Joseph Severn (1892)
- A Fellowe and his Wife (1892)
- Flower o' the Vine (1892)
- Pagan Review (1892)
- Vistas (1894);
- Pharais (1894) novel as FM
- The Gipsy Christ and Other Tales (1895)
- Mountain Lovers (1895) novel as FM
- The Laughter of Peterkin (1895) as FM
- The Sin-Eater and Other Tales (1895) as FM
- Ecce puella and Other Prose Imaginings (1896)
- The Washer of the Ford (1896) novel as FM
- Fair Women in Painting and Poetry (1896)
- Lyra Celtica: An Anthology of Representative Celtic Poetry (1896) introduction, his wife Elizabeth A. Sharp and J. Matthay editors
- Green Fire (1896) as FM
- Wives In Exile: a Comedy In Romance (1898)
- Silence Farm (1899) novel
- The Dominion of Dreams (1899) as FM
- By Sundown Shores (1900) as FM
- The Divine Adventure (1900) as FM
- Iona (1900) as FM
- From the Hills of Dream, Threnodies Songs and Later Poems (1901) as FM
- The Progress of Art in the Nineteenth century (1902)
- The House of Usna (1903) play as FM
- Literary Geography (1904)
- The Winged Destiny: Studies in the Spiritual History of the Gael (1904) as FM
- The Immortal Hour (1908) play as FM
Reference - William Sharp: "Fiona Macleod", 1855-1905 (1970) Flavia Alaya
External links Sharp, William Sharp, William Sharp, William Sharp, William
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