This book brings together, for the first time, a collection of articles from leading scholars on the writing, and literary and social contexts, of the 'tramp-poet' and memoirist W. H. Davies (1871-1940).
This book brings together, for the first time, a collection of articles from leading scholars on the writing, and literary and social contexts, of the 'tramp-poet' and memoirist W. H. Davies (1871-1940).
Rory Waterman is the author of three collections with Carcanet: Tonight the Summer's Over (2013), a PBS Recommendation shortlisted for a Seamus Heaney Award; Sarajevo Roses (2017), shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Prize, and Sweet Nothings (2020). He also publishes a lot of literary criticism. He co-edits New Walk Editions, and is on the English faculty at Nottingham Trent University.
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Introduction 1. The Soul's Destroyer (1905): a reassessment 2. The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp and its enduring popularity/travel memoir 3. Supertramps and Beggars: Davies and Begging in America in the 1890s and 1900s 4. The novels and drama of W. H. Davies 5. Davies, print media, journalism and criticism 6. Davies and Georgian Poetry 7.'Stop and stare': Davies and 'nature poetry' 8. Davies: a Welsh writer? 9. Davies, society and gender 10. Davies and Literary London 11. Super-Tramp and Little Tramp: Davies, Chaplin and the landscapes of modernity 12. Davies and Edward Thomas: literary and personal influences 13. 'Poisoned earth and sky': Representations of War in Davies' poetry and memoir Index.
Introduction 1. The Soul's Destroyer (1905): a reassessment 2. The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp and its enduring popularity/travel memoir 3. Supertramps and Beggars: Davies and Begging in America in the 1890s and 1900s 4. The novels and drama of W. H. Davies 5. Davies, print media, journalism and criticism 6. Davies and Georgian Poetry 7.'Stop and stare': Davies and 'nature poetry' 8. Davies: a Welsh writer? 9. Davies, society and gender 10. Davies and Literary London 11. Super-Tramp and Little Tramp: Davies, Chaplin and the landscapes of modernity 12. Davies and Edward Thomas: literary and personal influences 13. 'Poisoned earth and sky': Representations of War in Davies' poetry and memoir Index.
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