Victorian

Wathen Mark Wilks Call

1817–1890


Wathen Mark Wilks Call (1817–1890) was an English freethinker, poet and writer. He served as a deacon and priest in the Church of England from 1843 to 1856.

The poems here are taken from Arthur Quiller-Couch's anthology The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (Clarendon Press, 1912).

  1. Hymn
  2. The People's Petition
  3. Renunciation

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