Charles William Dalmon was a British poet, 1890s decadent, 1920s film designer, and friend of Noel Coward

Noël Coward

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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. Jean Moorcroft Wilson notes that 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...

 and 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...

 planned to publish "small, neglected authors", into which group Dalmon fell with Thomas Ashe

Thomas Ashe

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 and Primovard Dugard.

There are ascriptions to Dalmon of Manx

Isle of Man

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 songs and ballad

Ballad

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s, which may be collector's or editor's rather than author's credits. O what if the fowler my blackbird has taken? is given as by him, but there is a related old ballad. The (Red) Fuchsia Tree, set by Roger Quilter

Roger Quilter

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 and John Raynor

John Raynor

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, is attributed to Dalmon but may be traditional.

Works

• Minutiae (1892)
• Song Favours (1895)
• Flower And Leaf (1900)
• A Poor Man's Riches (1922)
• Singing As I Go (1927)
• The Last Service (1928)