William Allingham, Irish poet, author, and scholar (died 1889)

William Allingham

19th-century Irish poet and scholar

William Allingham was an Irish poet, diarist and editor. He wrote several volumes of lyric verse, and his poem "The Faeries" was much anthologised. But he is better known for his posthumously published Diary, in which he records his lively encounters with Tennyson, Carlyle and…