The Second World War is seldom feted for its poetry, despite producing poets whose talents rivalled those of the 1914-1918 conflict. Though he remained relatively unknown until the reissue of his work in 1964, of[…]
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Category: Poetry
Longing Under The Moon: The Pleasing Melancholy Of Attila József
On 11th April 1905, Attila József was born in Ferencváros, then a poor district of Budapest. His father, Áron József was a Romanian factory-worker and his mother, Borbála Pőcze, a Hungarian peasant girl; the couple already[…]
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Dreaming On The Verge Of Strife: Julian Bell And Rupert Brooke
A young Apollo, golden-haired, Stands dreaming on the verge of strife, Magnificently unprepared For the long littleness of life. – Frances Darwin Cornford Written after her first meeting with the poet, Frances Cornford’s pithy verse,[…]
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