biography
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| (1871–1962)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Yorkshire, N England, UK. He became a journalist in London and editor of Fry's Magazine, and a member of the group of poets known as the ‘Georgians’. He is best known for three volumes of poems with the recurring theme of nature and England: The Last Blackbird (1907), Eve (1913), and Poems (1917), which contains the polemic against the destruction of animals for feminine vanity in ‘To Deck a Woman’. He lectured in Japan (1924–38), then made his home in Ohio, USA. An anthology of his works appeared as The Skylark and Other Poems (1958). |
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