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John Cuming Walters
A lively English journalist and man of letters, he wrote widely on literature, music, travel, and public life. He is especially remembered for books on Alfred Tennyson and for the range and energy of his work as a critic and editor.
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The Lost Land of King Arthur
by John Cuming Walters
About the author
Born in 1863, John Cuming Walters was an English journalist and writer whose career moved between newspapers, criticism, and books. Reliable reference sources describe him as a journalist and author, and his surviving bibliography shows how broadly he wrote across literary studies, cultural commentary, and other nonfiction.
He is most closely associated with writing on Alfred Tennyson. Works such as Tennyson: Poet, Philosopher, Idealist and In Tennyson Land helped build his reputation as an accessible literary interpreter, someone interested not only in a poet's writings but also in the life, places, and ideas behind them.
Walters died on July 16, 1933. Today he is of particular interest to readers of late Victorian and Edwardian nonfiction, especially anyone curious about literary biography, journalism, and the kind of wide-ranging cultural criticism that once flourished in British newspapers and magazines.