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| Ralph Hodgson was already a brilliant graphic artist and an
innovator in the field of Victorian children's comics when,
in the early 1900s, he began producing poetry imbued with a
spiritual passion for the beauty of creation and the mystery
of existence. Admired by T.S. Eliot, John Berryman, Stephen
Spender and e.e. cummings, his work has continued to draw praise
from contemporary writers such as Robert Nye, Martin Seymour-Smith
and Studs Terkel. |
| In writing this first-ever biography of Hodgson, John Harding
has been able to draw on a wealth of previously unseen documents
from libraries and collections on both sides of the Atlantic.
Hodgson's close friendships with Eliot, Siegfried Sassoon and
Edmund Blunden provide the biography with absorbing insights
into contemporary literacy history. Illustrated with Hodgson's
original cartoons and line-drawings, Dreaming of Babylon is
sure to capture yet another generation of readers for Hodgson's
timeless verse. |
| John Harding, a freelance writer and teacher
living in London, is Ralph Hodgson’s biographer. |
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