THOMAS WATSON BIOGRAPHY
THOMAS WATSON BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
WATSON, THOMAS (1557?-1592). —Poet, born in London, was at Oxf., and studied law. He was a scholar, and made translations, one of which was a Latin version of the Antigone of Sophocles. In 1582 he pub. Hecatompathia, or The Passionate Centurie of Love , consisting of 100 eighteen-line poems, which he called sonnets. It was followed by Amyntas (1585) and Teares of Fansie (1593).