Edwin Alfred Watrous

Edwin Alfred Watrous was an American poet and satirist active in the early 1900s. The surviving record available online is fairly thin, but his name is clearly attached to works including The Fooliam, a Satire: With Apologies to Pope and High Priests of Literature (1916) and The Bee's Bayonet (a Little Honey and a Little Sting), which is available through Project Gutenberg.

His writing suggests a taste for playful language, pointed social commentary, and formal verse. The Bee's Bayonet is remembered as a mix of humor, sentiment, and patriotic poetry shaped by the mood of the World War I era, while The Fooliam points to his interest in literary parody and satire.

Because confirmed biographical details about his personal life are scarce in the sources I could verify here, he is best introduced through the work itself: a poet whose verse carries both sting and warmth, and whose books preserve a small but distinctive corner of early American literary culture.