Wn hodgson biography samples
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In the two decades following his death, William Noel Hodgson was one of the best known of the war poets. During his lifetime most of his writing appeared under the pen-name ‘Edward Melbourne’ in Cecil Chesterton’s weekly paper The New Witness, with subsequent reprintings in the regional press.
Wn hodgson biography samples
The first collected edition of his work published under his own name, in November 1916, sold out in a few weeks; within months it was into its third edition. After the war his poems were anthologized, broadcast – especially on Armistice Day – and even set to music.
He used traditional verse forms with a fluency which lent itself well to musical settings, and the characteristic mix of resolve, resignation and sadness that resonates through his war poems was in tune with the popular mood.
A clergyman’s son, born in January 1893 in rural Gloucestershire, Noel Hodgson grew up in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
He was close to his father, who longed for him to enter the church; his own attitude to this se