Arthur St. John Adcock was an English novelist and poet, remembered for his discovery of the then-unknown poet W. H. Davies

W. H. Davies

William Henry Davies or W. H. Davies was a Welsh poet and writer. Davies spent a significant part of his life as a tramp or vagabond in the United States and United Kingdom, but became known as one of the most popular poets of his time...

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Adcock was a Fleet Street

Fleet Street

Fleet Street is a street in central London, United Kingdom, named after the River Fleet, a stream that now flows underground. It was the home of the British press until the 1980s...

 journalist for half a century, and editor of The Bookman. According to A. E. Waite who knew him, Adcock did all the work of the Bookman, nominally under its founder William Robertson Nicoll

William Robertson Nicoll

Sir William Robertson Nicoll CH was a Scottish Free Church minister, journalist, editor, and man of letters.Nicoll was born in Lumsden, Aberdeenshire, the son of a Free Church minister...

.

His daughter Marion St. John Webb (died 2 May 1930) was also an author.

Works

• An Unfinished Martyrdom (1894)
• Beyond Atonement (1896)
• East End Idylls (1897)
• The Consecration Of Hetty Fleet (1898)
• In The Image Of God (1898)
• In The Wake Of The War (1900)
• Songs Of The War (1900)
• The Luck of Private Foster: A Romance of Love and War (1900)
• From a London Garden (1903)
• More Than Money (1903)
• In Fear Of Man (1904)
• London Etchings (1904)
• Admissions And Asides (1905)
• Love In London (1906)
• London From The Top Of A 'Bus (1906)
• The Shadow Show (1907)
• The World that Never Was. A London Fantasy (1908)
• Billicks (1909)
• Two to Nowhere (1911)
• A Man With A Past (1911)
• Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London (1912)
• The Booklover's London (1913)
• Modern Grub Street and other essays (1913)
• In the Firing Line (1914) editor, war reportage
• Seeing It Through [1915]
• Australasia Triumphant! With the Australians and New Zealanders in the Great War on Land And Sea (1916)
• Songs Of The World War (1916)
• The Odd Volum (1917) editor, stories
• For Remembrance. Soldier Poets who have Fallen in the War. With nineteen portraits (1918)
• The ANZAC Pilgrim's Progres: Ballads of Australia's Army (1918) Lance-Corporal Cobber, editor
• Tod MacMammon Sees His Soul (1920)
• Exit Homo (1921)
• The Divine Tragedy (1922)
• Gods of Modern Grub Street: Impressions of Contemporary Authors (1923) on Jeffrey Farnol, W. B. Maxwell
  W. B. Maxwell
  William Babington Maxwell was a British novelist. He was a son of novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon.Though nearly 50 years old at the outbreak of the First World War, he was accepted as a lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers and served in France until 1917.He wrote The Last Man In, a drama, produced 14...
  
  , W. W. Jacobs
  W. W. Jacobs
  William Wymark Jacobs , was an English author of short stories and novels.-Writings:Jacobs is now remembered for his macabre tale "The Monkey's Paw" and "The Toll House"...
  
   et al.
• With The Gilt Off (1923)
• Robert Louis Stevenson: His Work and His Personality (1924) editor
• The Bookman Treasury Of Living Poets [1925) editor, and later editions
• The Prince of Wales' African Book (1926)
• City Songs (1926) editor, poetry anthology
• Wonderful London (1926/7) editor, three volumes
• The Glory that was Grub Street - Impressions of Contemporary Authors (1928)
• Collected Poems of St. John Adcock (Hodder and Stoughton, 1929)
• London Memories (1931)
• A Book of Bohemians
• Hyde Park

The Bookman Treasury of Living Poets (4th edition 1931)

Edited by Adcock. The poets included (not all alive in 1931) were:

Lascelles Abercrombie

Lascelles Abercrombie

Lascelles Abercrombie was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets"...

 - J. R. Ackerley

J. R. Ackerley

J. R. Ackerley was arts editor of The Listener, the weekly magazine of the BBC...

 - Arthur H. Adams - Arthur St. John Adcock - Richard Aldington

Richard Aldington

Richard Aldington , born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet.Aldington was best known for his World War I poetry, the 1929 novel, Death of a Hero, and the controversy arising from his 1955 Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry...

 - William Talbot Allison - Laurence Alma-Tadema

Laurence Alma-Tadema

Laurence Alma-Tadema , was an English novelist and poet of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who worked in many genres...

 - Reginald Arkell

Reginald Arkell

Reginald Arkell was a British script writer and comic novelist who wrote many musical plays for the London theatre. The most popular of those was an adaptation of the spoof history book 1066 and All That: 1066—and all that: A Musical Comedy based on that Memorable History by Sellar and Yeatman...

 - Martin Armstrong - Henry Baerlein - Maurice Baring

Maurice Baring

Maurice Baring was an English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent...

 - May Bateman - Clifford Bax

Clifford Bax

Clifford Bax was a versatile English writer, known particularly as a playwright, a journalist, critic and editor, and a poet, lyricist and hymn writer. He also was a translator, for example of Goldoni...

 - Hilaire Belloc

Hilaire Belloc

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, satirist, man of letters and political activist...

 - Laurence Binyon

Laurence Binyon

Robert Laurence Binyon was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. His most famous work, For the Fallen, is well known for being used in Remembrance Sunday services....

 - William Blane - Edmund Blunden

Edmund Blunden

Edmund Charles Blunden, MC was an English poet, author and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career, Blunden was also a reviewer for English publications and an academic in Tokyo and later Hong Kong...

 - Gordon Bottomley

Gordon Bottomley

Gordon Bottomley was an English poet, known particularly for his verse dramas. He was partly disabled by tubercular illness. His main influences were the later Victorian Romantic poets, the Pre-Raphaelites and William Morris.- Background :...

 - F. Victor Branford - Robert Bridges

Robert Bridges

Robert Seymour Bridges, OM, was a British poet, and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930.-Personal and professional life:...

 - Thomas Burke

Thomas Burke (author)

Thomas Burke was a British author. He was born in Eltham, London.His first successful publication was Limehouse Nights , a collection of stories centered around life in the poverty-stricken Limehouse district of London...

 - Charles Kennett Burrow - May Byron - Sir Hall Caine - Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell (poet)

Joseph Campbell was an Irish poet and lyricist. He wrote under the Gaelicised version of his name Seosamh Mac Cathmhaoil...

 - Roy Campbell

Roy Campbell (poet)

Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell, better known as Roy Campbell, was an Anglo-African poet and satirist. He was considered by T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and Edith Sitwell to have been one of the best poets of the period between the First and Second World Wars...

 - William Canton

William Canton

William Canton was a British poet, journalist and writer, now best known for his contributions to children's literature. These include his series of three books, beginning with The Invisible Playmate, written for his daughter Winifred Vida...

 - Bliss Carman

Bliss Carman

Bliss Carman FRSC was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years....

 - G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG was an English writer. His prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, plays, journalism, public lectures and debates, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction....

 - Wilfred Rowland Childe

Wilfred Rowland Childe

Wilfred Rowland Childe was a British poet and critic. He was educated at Harrow School and Magdalen College, Oxford. He edited Oxford Poetry in 1916 and 1917. He became a Roman Catholic convert in 1916. He is chiefly remembered for 'Dream English. A Fantastical Romance' which was and still is...

 - Richard Church

Richard Church (poet)

Richard Thomas Church was an English writer, known as poet and critic; he also wrote novels and verse plays, and three well-received volumes of autobiography.-Life:...

 - Ethel Clifford - Helena Coleman - Padraic Colum

Padraic Colum

Padraic Colum was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, playwright, children's author and collector of folklore. He was one of the leading figures of the Celtic Revival.-Early life:...

 - William Leonard Courtney

William Leonard Courtney

William Leonard Courtney was an English author, born at Poona, India, and educated at Oxford. In 1873 he became headmaster of Somersetshire College, Bath, and in 1894 editor of the Fortnightly Review.-Works:...

 - Zora Cross

Zora Cross

Zora Bernice May Cross was an Australian poet, novelist and journalist.She was born in Brisbane, and was educated at Ipswich Girls' Grammar School and then Sydney Teachers' College...

 - Gerald H. Crow - Gerald Cumberland - Charles Dalmon

Charles Dalmon

Charles William Dalmon was a British poet, 1890s decadent, 1920s film designer, and friend of Noel Coward.He was a contributor to The Yellow Book, and was published in The Living Age, in the mid-1890s. His poems subsequently appeared in many anthologies, but his reputation was never bright...

 - William Henry Davies - Edward Davison - C. A. Dawson-Scott - Walter De la Mare

Walter de la Mare

Walter John de la Mare , OM CH was an English poet, short story writer and novelist, probably best remembered for his works for children and the poem "The Listeners"....

 - C. J. Dennis

C. J. Dennis

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis, better known as C. J. Dennis, was an Australian poet known for his humorous poems, especially "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke", published in the early 20th century...

 - May Doney - Charles Montagu Doughty

Charles Montagu Doughty

Charles Montagu Doughty was an English poet, writer, and traveller born in Theberton Hall, Saxmundham, Suffolk and educated at private schools in Laleham and Elstree, and at a school for the royal navy, Portsmouth...

 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - John Drinkwater - Helen Parry Eden - T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...

 - Vivian Locke Ellis - Godfrey Elton - Eleanor Farjeon

Eleanor Farjeon

Eleanor Farjeon was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. Many of her works had charming illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Some of her correspondence has also been published...

 - Hugh I'A. Fausset - John Ferguson

John Ferguson

John Ferguson may refer to:Politics*John Ferguson , merchant and Canadian senator from New Brunswick*John Ferguson , physician and Canadian MP and senator from Ontario...

 - Alfred Hugh Fisher - F. S. Flint

F. S. Flint

Frank Stuart Flint was an English poet and translator who was a prominent member of the Imagist group. Ford Madox Ford called him "one of the greatest men and one of the beautiful spirits of the country"....

 - Robin Flower

Robin Flower

Robin Ernest William Flower was an English poet and scholar, a Celticist, Anglo-Saxonist and translator from the Irish language. He is commonly known in Ireland as "Bláithín" . He married Ida Mary Streeter.-Life:...

 - S. Gertrude Ford - Gilbert Frankau

Gilbert Frankau

Gilbert Frankau was a popular British novelist. He was known also for verse including a number of verse novels, and short stories....

 - John Freeman

John Freeman (Georgian poet)

John Frederick Freeman, , was an English poet and essayist, who gave up a successful career in insurance to write full time.He was born in London, and started as an office boy aged 13...

 - Cecil French - V. Helen Friedlaender - Rose Fyleman

Rose Fyleman

Rose Amy Fyleman was an English writer and poet, noted for her works on the fairy folk, for children. Her poem There are fairies at the bottom of our garden was set to music by English composer Liza Lehmann...

 - Norman Gale

Norman Gale

For the Wales international rugby union player see Norman Gale Norman Rowland Gale was a poet, story-teller and reviewer, who published many books over a period of nearly fifty years....

 - John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy OM was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter...

 - Douglas Garman - Leon Gellert

Leon Gellert

Leon Maxwell Gellert was an Australian poet.He was born in Walkerville, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. He was subjected to bullying by his father, a Methodist of Hungarian extraction, to which he reacted by learning self-defence at the YMCA.After an education at Adelaide High School, he...

 - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson was a British Georgian poet, associated with World War I but also the author of much later work.-Early work:...

 - Mary Gilmore

Mary Gilmore

Dame Mary Gilmore DBE was a prominent Australian socialist poet and journalist.-Early life:Mary Jean Cameron was born on 16 August 1865 at Cotta Walla near Goulburn, New South Wales...

 - Hibbart Gilson - Louis Golding

Louis Golding

Louis Golding was a British writer, very famous in his time especially for his novels, though he is now largely neglected; he wrote also short stories, essays, fantasies, travel books and poetry....

 - Douglas Goldring

Douglas Goldring

Douglas Goldring was a British writer and journalist.-Life:He was born in Greenwich, England. He was educated initially at Hurstpierpoint, Magdalen College School and for his secondary education Felsted...

 - Eva Gore-Booth

Eva Gore-Booth

Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth was an Irish poet and dramatist, and a committed suffragist, social worker and labour activist...

 - Sir Edmund Gosse - Gerald Gould

Gerald Gould

Gerald Gould was an English writer, known as a journalist and reviewer, essayist and poet.-Life:He was brought up in Norwich, and studied at University College, London and Magdalen College, Oxford...

 - Alfred Perceval Graves

Alfred Perceval Graves

Alfred Perceval Graves , was an Anglo-Irish poet, songwriter, and school inspector . His first marriage to Jane Cooper, eldest daughter of James Cooper of Cooper Hill, Co. Limerick, resulted in five children: the journalist Philip Graves, Mary, Richard, Alfred, and Susan...

 - Robert Graves

Robert Graves

Robert von Ranke Graves 24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985 was an English poet, translator and novelist. During his long life he produced more than 140 works...

 - Rosaleen Graves - Gladys Laurence Groom - Joan Guthrie-Smith - Stephen Gwynn - Katherine Hale - Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. While his works typically belong to the Naturalism movement, several poems display elements of the previous Romantic and Enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural.While he regarded himself primarily as a...

 - F. W. Harvey

F. W. Harvey

Frederick William Harvey was an English poet, known for poems composed in prisoner-of-war camps at Krefeld and Gütersloh that were sent back to England, during World War I....

 - Alfred Hayes

Alfred Hayes (writer)

Alfred Hayes was a British screenwriter, television writer, novelist, and poet, who worked in Italy and the United States...

 - Ralph Hodgson

Ralph Hodgson

Ralph Hodgson , Order of the Rising Sun ,was an English poet, very popular in his lifetime on the strength of a small number of anthology pieces, such as The Bull. He was one of the more 'pastoral' of the Georgian poets...

 - Norah Mary Holland - Alfred Edward Housman - Laurence Housman

Laurence Housman

Laurence Housman was an English playwright, writer and illustrator.-Early life:Laurence Housman was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, one of seven children who included the poet A. E. Housman and writer Clemence Housman. In 1871 his mother died, and his father remarried, to a cousin...

 - Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel...

 - Violet Jacob

Violet Jacob

Violet Jacob was a Scottish writer, now known especially for her historical novel Flemington and her poetry....

 - James Joyce

James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...

 - Sheila Kaye-Smith

Sheila Kaye-Smith

Sheila Kaye-Smith was an English writer, known for her many novels set in the borderlands of Sussex and Kent in the English regional tradition...

 - Frank Kendon

Frank Kendon

Frank Samuel Herbert Kendon was an English writer, poet and academic. He was also an illustrator, and journalist.He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow in 1948. He was a published poet in the 1920s and later a writer of stories and a novel. From 1935 to 1954 he...

 - Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...

 - Vernon Knowles

Vernon Knowles

Vernon Knowles was an Australian author, born in Adelaide.He attended the University of Western Australia but did not complete a degree. With some encouragement from Walter Murdoch, he turned to writing...

 - Edmund George Valfy Knox - D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence

David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation...

 - Nina Frances Layard

Nina Frances Layard

Nina Frances Layard was an English poetess, prehistorian, archaeologist and antiquary who made many important discoveries, and by winning the respect of contemporary academics helped to establish a role for women in her field of expertise...

 - Richard Le Gallienne

Richard Le Gallienne

Richard Le Gallienne was an English author and poet. The American actress Eva Le Gallienne was his daughter, by his second marriage.-Life and career:...

 - Rudolph Chambers Lehmann - Shane Leslie

Shane Leslie

Sir John Randolph Leslie, 3rd Baronet, generally known as Shane Leslie , was an Irish-born diplomat and writer. He was a first cousin of the British war time Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill...

 - W. M. Letts - Sylvia Lynd

Sylvia Lynd

Sylvia Lynd was a poet, essayist, short story writer and novelist. She was born in London, her father A. R. Dryhurst being a Dubliner. She was educated at the Slade School of Art, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.She married in 1909 the journalist and man of letters Robert Lynd...

 - Sidney Royse Lysaght

Sidney Royse Lysaght

Sidney Royse Lysaght was an Irish writer, who worked in the iron industry. He was born in Cork.He visited Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa, in 1894...

 - Rose Macaulay

Rose Macaulay

Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, DBE was an English writer. She published thirty-five books, mostly novels but also biographies and travel writing....

 - Ronald Campbell Macfie

Ronald Campbell Macfie

Ronald Campbell Macfie was a Scottish medical doctor, and science writer specialising in eugenics and Darwinist selection, sometime Liberal Member of British Parliament mentioned in The Bookman Treasury of Living Poets as a contributor to such works as Fairy Tales for Old and Young , and The...

 - Patrick MacGill

Patrick MacGill

Patrick MacGill was an Irish journalist, poet and novelist, known as "The Navvy Poet" because he had worked as a navvy before he began writing.MacGill was born in Glenties, County Donegal...

 - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay - James Allan Mackereth - Rachel Swete Macnamara - John Masefield

John Masefield

John Edward Masefield, OM, was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967...

 - Theodore Maynard

Theodore Maynard

Theodore Maynard was an English poet, literary critic, and historian. He grew up in England until 1920, and afterwards he moved to America and lived there until his death. Although he considered himself primarily a poet, during his lifetime he was best known and most influential as a historian of...

 - Phyllis Mégroz - R. L. Mégroz

R. L. Mégroz

Rodolphe Louis Mégroz was a prolific English writer, critic and poet. He was born in London, with a French father and English mother. He worked in a bank before World War I, in which he served in the British Army at Gallipoli.After the war he trained as a journalist, and worked as a freelance. He...

 - Charlotte Mew

Charlotte Mew

Charlotte Mary Mew was an English poet, whose work spans the cusp between Victorian poetry and Modernism.She was born in Bloomsbury, London the daughter of the architect Frederick Mew, who designed Hampstead town hall and Anna Kendall. She attended Lucy Harrison's School for Girls and lectures at...

 - Susan Miles

Susan Miles

Susan Miles was the nom de plume of Ursula Wyllie Roberts . She was born in India, where her father was a colonel in the British military....

 - Harold Monro

Harold Monro

Harold Edward Monro was a British poet, the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bring their work before the public....

 - E. Hamilton Moore - T. Sturge Moore - Thomas Moult

Thomas Moult

Thomas Moult was a versatile English journalist and writer, and one of the Georgian poets. He is known for his annual anthologies Best Poems of the Year, 1922 to 1943, which were popular verse selections taken from periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic.-Life:He was born in Derbyshire...

 - Neil Munro

Neil Munro

-Acting career:Born in Musselburgh, Scotland, Munro moved to Toronto at an early age. After graduating from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1967, he quickly established himself as one of the most compelling theatre actors in Canada, performing with Toronto Arts Productions, the National...

 - Charles Murray

Charles Murray (poet)

Charles Murray was a poet who wrote in the Doric dialect of Scots. He was born and raised in Alford in north east Scotland. However he wrote much of his poetry while living in South Africa where he spent most of his working life as a successful civil engineer...

 - John Middleton Murry

John Middleton Murry

John Middleton Murry was an English writer. He was prolific, producing more than 60 books and thousands of essays and reviews on literature, social issues, politics, and religion during his lifetime...

 - Sarojini Naidu

Sarojini Naidu

Sarojini Naidu , also known by the sobriquet The Nightingale of India, was a child prodigy, Indian independence activist and poet...

 - Sir Henry Newbolt - Robert Nichols - Wallace Bertram Nichols - Frederick Niven - Alfred Noyes

Alfred Noyes

Alfred Noyes was an English poet, best known for his ballads, "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel-Organ".-Early years:...

 - Will H. Ogilvie - Carola Oman - Moira O'Neill

Moira O'Neill

Moira O'Neill was the pseudonym of Agnes Shakespeare Higginson , a popular Irish-Canadian poet who wrote ballads and other verse inspired by County Antrim, where she lived at Cushendun....

 - Hermon Ould - Barry Pain

Barry Pain

Barry Eric Odell Pain was an English journalist, poet and writer.-Biography:Born in Cambridge, Barry Pain was educated at Sedbergh School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He became a prominent contributor to The Granta...

 - Herbert E. Palmer - Sir Gilbert Parker - Andrew Barton Paterson - Eden Phillpotts

Eden Phillpotts

Eden Phillpotts was an English author, poet and dramatist. He was born in India, educated in Plymouth, Devon, and worked as an insurance officer for 10 years before studying for the stage and eventually becoming a writer....

 - William Plomer

William Plomer

William Charles Franklyn Plomer CBE was a South African author, known as a novelist, poet and literary editor. He was educated mostly in the United Kingdom...

 - Max Plowman

Max Plowman

Max Plowman was a British writer and pacifist.-Life to 1918:He was born in Northumberland Park, Tottenham, in London. He left school at 16, and worked for a decade in his father's brick business. He became a journalist and poet...

 - John Presland - Peter Quennell

Peter Quennell

Sir Peter Courtney Quennell CBE was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic....

 - Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch - Herbert Read

Herbert Read

Sir Herbert Edward Read, DSO, MC was an English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art. He was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism, and was strongly influenced by proto-existentialist thinker Max Stirner....

 - Ernest Rhys

Ernest Rhys

Ernest Percival Rhys was an English writer, best known for his role as founding editor of the Everyman's Library series of affordable classics. He wrote essays, stories, poetry, novels and plays...

 - Edgell Rickword

Edgell Rickword

John Edgell Rickword, MC was an English poet, critic, journalist and literary editor. He became one of the leading communist intellectuals active in the 1930s.-Early life:He was born in Colchester, Essex...

 - Cecil Roberts

Cecil Roberts

Cecil Edric Mornington Roberts was an English journalist , poet, dramatist and novelist.Roberts worked as a journalist on the Liverpool Post during World War I, as literary editor and then as a war correspondent. From 1920 for five years he edited the Nottingham Journal...

 - Charles George Douglas Roberts - Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy E. Roberts is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, Illinois.Roberts received her Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and her Doctor of Jurisprudence from Harvard Law School. She is an author, lecturer, and lawyer...

 - Richard Ellis Roberts - Eric Sutherland Robertson - George William Russell

George William Russell

George William Russell who wrote under the pseudonym Æ , was an Irish nationalist, writer, editor, critic, poet, and painter. He was also a mystical writer, and centre of a group of followers of theosophy in Dublin, for many years.-Organisor:Russell was born in Lurgan, County Armagh...

 - Arthur K. Sabin - Lady Margaret Sackville

Lady Margaret Sackville

Lady Margaret Sackville was an English poet and children’s author.-Life:Born at 60 Grosvenor Street, Mayfair, Lady Margaret was the youngest child of Reginald Windsor Sackville, 7th Earl De La Warr, who died when she was fourteen...

 - V. Sackville-West - Arthur L. Salmon - Ruth Manning-Sanders

Ruth Manning-Sanders

Ruth Manning-Sanders was a prolific British poet and author who was perhaps best known for her series of children's books in which she collected and retold fairy tales from all over the world. All told, she published more than 90 books during her lifetime. The dust jacket for A Book of Giants...

 - Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC was an English poet, author and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's...

 - Henry Savage - Duncan Campbell Scott

Duncan Campbell Scott

Duncan Campbell Scott was a Canadian poet and prose writer. With Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Archibald Lampman, he is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets....

 - Frederick George Scott

Frederick George Scott

Frederick George Scott was a Canadian poet and author, known as the Poet of the Laurentians. He is sometimes associated with Canada's Confederation Poets, a group that included Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman, and Duncan Campbell Scott. Scott published 13 books of Christian...

 - Sir Owen Seaman - Robert W. Service

Robert W. Service

Robert William Service was a poet and writer who has often been called "the Bard of the Yukon".Service is best known for his poems "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee", from his first book, Songs of a Sourdough...

 - William Kean Seymour

William Kean Seymour

William Kean Seymour was a British writer, by profession a bank manager. He was a poet and critic, novelist, journalist and literary editor.-Works:*The Street of Dreams poems*To Verhaeren poems...

 - Edward Shanks

Edward Shanks

Edward Richard Buxton Shanks was an English writer, known as a war poet of World War I, then as an academic and journalist, and literary critic and biographer. He also wrote some science fiction....

 - Alfred Tresidder Sheppard - Edward Shillito - Horace Shipp - Fredegond Shove

Fredegond Shove

Fredegond Shove was an English poet.Fredegond was the daughter of the historian Frederic William Maitland and his wife Florence Henrietta Fisher. She married the economist Gerald Shove....

 - May Sinclair

May Sinclair

May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair , a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry. She was an active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League...

 - Edith Sitwell

Edith Sitwell

Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE was a British poet and critic.-Background:Edith Sitwell was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, the oldest child and only daughter of Sir George Sitwell, 4th Baronet, of Renishaw Hall; he was an expert on genealogy and landscaping...

 - Osbert Sitwell

Osbert Sitwell

Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet, was an English writer. His elder sister was Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell and his younger brother was Sir Sacheverell Sitwell; like them he devoted his life to art and literature....

 - Sacheverell Sitwell

Sacheverell Sitwell

Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Baronet CH was an English writer, best known as an art critic and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque. He was the younger brother of Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell....

 - Francis Carey Slater - C. Fox Smith

C. Fox Smith

Cicely Fox Smith was an English poet and writer. Born in Lymm, Cheshire and educated [at [Manchester High School for Girls]], she briefly lived in Canada, before returning to the United Kingdom shortly before the outbreak of World War I. She settled in Hampshire and began writing poetry, often...

 - Stephen Southwold

Stephen Southwold

Stephen Southwold attended St. Mark's College, Chelsea and worked as a schoolmaster. He became a prolific British writer. Born Stephen Henry Critten, he used a number of pseudonyms, eventually changing his name to one of them, Stephen Southwold. He most often wrote as Neil Bell and also wrote...

 - J. C. Squire

J. C. Squire

Sir John Collings Squire was a British poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor of the post-World War I period.- Biography :...

 - Robert J. C. Stead - W. Force Stead - James Stephens

James Stephens

James Stephens may refer to:*James Stephens , 17th century MP for Gloucester*James Stephen , English lawyer associated with the abolition of slavery* James B...

 - Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer

Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer

Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer was a Canadian novelist, screenwriter, and poet who later moved to the United States....

 - Leonard Strong

Leonard Strong

Leonard Alfred George Strong was an English writer, known as a novelist, journalist, poet and director of the publishers Methuen Ltd.- Life :...

 - Muriel Stuart

Muriel Stuart

Muriel Stuart The daughter of a Scottish barrister, was a poet, particularly concerned with the topic of sexual politics, though she first wrote poems about World War I. She later gave up poetry writing; her last work was published in the 1930s...

 - G. A. Studdert-Kennedy - Arthur Symons

Arthur Symons

Arthur William Symons , was a British poet, critic and magazine editor.-Life:Born in Milford Haven, Wales, of Cornish parents, Symons was educated privately, spending much of his time in France and Italy...

 - Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...

 - Rachel Annand Taylor

Rachel Annand Taylor

Rachel Annand Taylor was a Scottish poet, biographer and literary critic.Born in Aberdeen to stonemason John Annand and his wife Clarinda Dinnie, she was one of the first women to study at Aberdeen University. She later taught at Aberdeen High School for Girls.As a writer she was admired by...

 - Gilbert Thomas - Edward Thompson

Edward Thompson

Edward Thompson is the name of:* Edward Thompson , English landowner and politician* Edward Thompson , MP and Lord of the Admiralty...

 - E. Temple Thurston

E. Temple Thurston

Ernest Temple Thurston was an Anglo-Irish poet, playwright and author. He was born in Halesworth, Suffolk, England, and his family moved to Cork when he was aged ten. In 1901 he married the popular novelist, Katherine Cecil Madden, . The marriage did not last and they separated in 1907 and were...

 - W. R. Titterton

W. R. Titterton

William Richard Titterton was a British journalist, writer and poet now remembered as the friend and first biographer of G. K. Chesterton. Titterton and Chesterton met on the London Daily News.-Early life:...

 - W. J. Turner - Katherine Tynan - Alberta Vickridge - Sherard Vines

Sherard Vines

Walter Sherard Vines was an English writer and academic who wrote poetry, novels, and criticism.He was born in Oxford and educated at Magdalen College School and New College, Oxford. He was published in Oxford Poetry, and took an academic position at Belfast University in 1914. He served in the...

 - E. H. Visiak

E. H. Visiak

Edward Harold Physick was an English writer, known chiefly as a critic and authority on John Milton; also a poet and fantasy writer. He used the pseudonym E. H. Visiak from 1910.-Life:...

 - Arthur Edward Waite

Arthur Edward Waite

Arthur Edward Waite was a scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters, and was the co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. As his biographer, R.A...

 - C. Henry Warren - Sir William Watson - Alec Waugh

Alec Waugh

Alexander Raban Waugh , was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh and son of Arthur Waugh, author, literary critic, and publisher...

 - Marion St. John Webb - Mary Webb

Mary Webb

Mary Webb , was an English romantic novelist and poet of the early 20th century, whose work is set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and among Shropshire characters and people which she knew. Her novels have been successfully dramatized, most notably the film Gone to Earth in 1950 by Michael...

 - Mary Morison Webster

Mary Morison Webster

Mary Morison Webster was a Scottish born novelist and poet who came to South Africa with her family in 1920. She lived in Johannesburg where she was an influential book reviewer for The Rand Daily Mail and Sunday Times for 40 years...

 - Anna Wickham

Anna Wickham

Anna Wickham was the pseudonym of Edith Alice Mary Harper , a British poet with strong Australian connections. She is remembered as a modernist figure and feminist writer, though one not able to command sustained critical attention in her lifetime...

 - Charles Williams

Charles Williams (UK writer)

Charles Walter Stansby Williams was a British poet, novelist, theologian, literary critic, and member of the Inklings.- Biography :...

 - Iolo Aneurin Williams - Humbert Wolfe

Humbert Wolfe

Humbert Wolfe CB CBE , was an Italian-born English poet, man of letters and civil servant, from a Jewish family background, his father, Martin Wolff of German descent and his mother, Consuela, née Terraccini, Italian...

 - Margaret L. Woods - David McKee Wright

David McKee Wright

David McKee Wright was an Irish-born poet and journalist, active in New Zealand and Australia.-Early life:Wright was born at Ballynaskeagh, County Down, Ireland, the second son of Rev. William Wright, D.D. , a Congregational missionary working in Damascus, scholar and author, and his wife Ann ,...

 - W. B. Yeats

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms...

 - Francis Brett Young

Francis Brett Young

Francis Brett Young was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and composer.-Life:Brett Young was born in Halesowen, Worcestershire. He schooled first at a private school in Sutton Coldfield...

 - Geoffrey Winthrop Young

Geoffrey Winthrop Young

Geoffrey Winthrop Young D.Litt. was a British climber, poet and educator, and author of several notable books on mountaineering.-Mountaineering:...

 - Ruth Young

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