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Michael Roberts (William Edward Roberts) ( 6 December 1902 - 13 December 1948) was a British poet, writer, critic and broadcaster, who made his living as a teacher. He was born in Bournemouth, and educated at Bournemouth School and King's College, London. He in 1922 went to Trinity College, Cambridge to read mathematics, following a custom of the time; it was at this period (to 1924) of his life he acquired the name Michael (after Lomonosov).He went to teach in Newcastle-upon-Tyne; in the latter 1920s he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain, being expelled within a year. He moved to another teaching post in London in 1931, having published a first poetry collection the year before. He started to edit anthologies, of which New Country (1933) became celebrated for the group of poets, including W. H. Auden, it featured. In 1934 he took part in a high-profile series of radio broadcasts, Whither Britain?, together with major figures such as Winston Churchill and Ernest Bevin. He married Janet Smith in 1935.
The Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936), which he edited, is the single piece of work for which he is now best remembered. He followed it with poetry and prose writing, and a study of T. E. HulmeThomas Ernest Hulme ( September 16 1883 28 September 1917) was an English writer, who during his informal tenure from 1909 as critic for The New Age edited by A. Orage, exerted a notable influence on London modernism. He is famously quoted on Romanticism.
He became a BBC broadcaster during World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough. He died of leukaemia in 1948.
1 Poets in New Signatures (1932)
W. H. Auden, Julian BellJulian Heward Bell ( 1908 1937) was an English poet, and the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell. The writer Quentin Bell was his younger briother. He was brought up mainly at Charleston, Sussex. He was educated at Leighton Park and King's College, Cambridge, w, C. Day Lewis, Richard EberhartRichard Eberhart (born April 5 1904) is an American poet and academic. He was born in Austin, Minnesota, and educated at the University of Minnesota, and then Dartmouth College. After graduation he worked and then went to St. John's College, Cambridge, wh, William EmpsonSir William Empson ( 1906- 1984) was an English poet and literary critic. Empson is now best known for his literary criticism, and in particular his analysis of the use of language in poetical works, though his own poetry is arguably undervalued. In his c, John LehmannJohn Frederick Lehmann (born Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, June 2 1907; died London, April 7 1987) was an English poet and man of letters, and one of the foremost literary editors of the twentieth century, founding the periodicals New Writing and The Londo, William Plomer , Stephen Spender, A. S. J. Tessimond
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