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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839)

Praed, Winthrop Mackworth (prād). An English poet (1802–39); born in London. He wrote society verse and occasional poetry. Among his best-known pieces are: ‘The Red Fisherman’; ‘Every-Day Characters’; ‘Private Theatricals’; ‘School and Schoolfellows’; ‘A Letter of Advice’; ‘Our Ball’; ‘My Partner’; ‘My Little Cousins’; etc. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).