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William Winter was born on July 15, 1836, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the son of Capt. Charles Winter and Louisa Wharf.
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William Winter was born on July 15, 1836, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the son of Capt. Charles Winter and Louisa Wharf.
His boyhood was chiefly spent in Boston, however, where he attended school. He was graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1857.
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, but he later recorded that he "declined his first case" and never practised this profession. His heart was set on a literary career. When only eighteen, he had published a volume of poems, and had secured sporadic employment as a reviewer on the Boston Transcript. In addition, he reviewed a volume of poems by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and the two precocious youths thus became acquainted and remained close friends all their lives. For a brief time Winter took the stump around New England in the anti-slavery cause. In the winter of 1856 - 1860 he left Boston to try his fortunes in New York. He worked for a period as assistant editor and book reviewer for the Saturday Press. In 1860 - 1861 he wrote briefly for The Leader before taking charge of the Albion dramatic department (1861 - 1865), writing as Mercutio. In 1865 he became the dramatic critic of the New York Tribune, a position he held until August 14th, 1909. A number of his books, studying the personalities or events of the current drama, have been drawn from or based upon his contributions to that newspaper.
Mr. Winter began to publish poetry in 1854, with the maiden volume "The Convent and Other Poems"; and half-a-dozen books of verse have come from his pen. The latest collection, "Author’s Edition" (1909), contains what he deemed most worthy of preservation. These poems, in purity of diction and form, suggest the influence of the standard older singers, and outbreathe a sweet and true lyric spirit. They deal with friendship and love, with the bitter-sweet of life and death. Many are elegiac or commemorative, and these are among the most felicitous. Mr. Winter, in a preface, expressed the hope that his verse may prove "a not altogether unworthy addition to that old school of English Lyrical Poetry, of which gentleness is the soul and simplicity the garment, "— and this describes not ill his accomplishment as well as his aim in poetry.
His prose falls into two main classes: the biographies and studies of stage celebrities, and the essays in which the wanderings in the storied British islands are chronicled. Of the latter, "English Rambles, " "Gray Days and Gold, " "Old Shrines and Ivy, " and "Shakespeare’s England, " are representative. Winter wrote these sketches picturesquely, mingling fact and sentiment in a way to make very pleasant and stimulating reading. To the critical studies belong carefully wrought sketches of Booth, Jefferson, Mary Anderson, Henry Irving, and Richard Mansfield and briefer appreciations of many other noteworthy players. In these critiques, Mr. Winter’s views on the technique of the actor’s art are set forth with much of literary attraction. In his daily dramatic criticism, he often indulges in trenchant satire when attacking what he considers the latter-day fads of the drama, — the problem play, the Ibsen craze, and the like; and is never more vigorous and amusing, though hardly fair to some of the newer literary forces. But Mr. Winter’s preaching is both sane and wholesome, and no doubt it is needed in a day of so much literary confusion.
In recent years Mr. Winter has written various books of reminiscences: among these are "Other Days — Chronicles and Personal Memories of the Stage" (1908), "Old Friends — Personal Literary Recollections" (1909), "The Wallet of Time — Theatrical Criticism and Reminiscence" (1913), and 'Vagrant Memories" (1915). His long life, indeed, crowded his later years with a rich store of memories. He began writing regularly for the press in 1852 and his pen was as eager as ever in celebrating the tercentenary of Shakespeare’s death. No one has known the American stage so well as he; and few have spent longer and happier hours under the spell of Shakespeare. He died on June 30, 1917, in New Brighton, New York, after a bout of angina pectoris. He was buried at Silver Mount Cemetery.
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William Winter was somewhat short in stature, had finely chiselled features, and wore always a moustache. Hair and moustache grew snow-white with the turn of the century, and his body seemed frail as he came down the aisle on the arm of his son.
On December 8, 1860, William Winter married Elizabeth Campbell, a novelist of Scotch origin, by whom he had five children.