Значение слова DAVIDSON в Литературной энциклопедии

JOHN (1837-1909).-Poet and playwright, _b._ at Barrhead, Renfrewshire, _s._ of a Dissenting minister, entered the chemical department of a sugar refinery in Greenock in his 13th year, returning after one year to school as a pupil teacher. He was afterwards engaged in teaching at various places, and having taken to literature went in 1890 to London. He achieved a reputation as a writer of poems and plays of marked individuality and vivid realism. His poems include _In a Music Hall_ (1891), _Fleet Street Eclogues_ (1893), _Baptist Lake_ (1894), _New Ballads_ (1896), _The Last Ballad_ (1898), _The Triumph of Mammon_ (1907), and among his plays are _Bruce_ (1886), _Smith: a Tragic Farce_ (1888), _Godfrida_ (1898). D. disappeared on March 27, 1909, under circumstances which left little doubt that under the influence of mental depression he had committed suicide. Among his papers was found the MS. of a new work, _Fleet Street Poems_, with a letter containing the words, "This will be my last book." His body was discovered a few months later.