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William Henry Davies ( 1871- 1940) was a Welsh poet and writer; he was one of the most popular poets of his time. He was born in Newport, Monmouthshire.

He was a difficult and somewhat delinquent young man, and after failing to settle as an apprentice, took casual work and travelled. Autobiography of a Super-Tramp is an account of his times in the USA 1893-1899. He lost a foot, while jumping a train, in Canada, and wore a wooden leg.

He returned to England, living a rough life in London in particular. His first book of poetry, in 1905, was the beginning of success and a growing reputation; he drew extensively on his experiences with the seamier side for material. By the time of his prominent place in the Edward Marsh Georgian poetry series, he was an established figure. He is generally best known for two lines from his poem, Leisure:

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?

He married in 1923 Helen Payne, an ex-prostitute and his junior by three decades; his frank account of how this came about was only published in 1980. They lived quietly in Sussex and Gloucestershire.

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2 Poets included in Shorter Lyrics 1900-1922

Lascelles Abercrombie - Richard Aldington - John Alford - George Anderson - Martin Armstrong - Clifford Bax - J. D. Beezley - Hilaire Belloc - A. C. Benson - Henry Bryan Binns - Laurence BinyonLaurence Robert Binyon, ( August 10, 1869 March 10, 1943) was a British poet and scholar. He is best known for the poem "For the Fallen", first published in the Times in September, 1914. The seven-verse poem honoured the World War I English war dead of th - Edmund BlundenEdmund Charles Blunden ( November 1, 1896 January 20, 1974) , although not one of the top trio of English World War I writers, was an important and influential poet, author and critic. Born in London, Blunden was educated at Christ's Hospital, a famous pu - Wilfrid Scawen BluntWilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922) was a British poet and writer. He was born in Sussex, and served in the Diplomatic Service from 1858 to 1869. He married Lady Anne Noel and together they travelled extensively in the Middle East and India. Blunt opposed Br - Eva Gore Booth - Gordon BottomleyGordon Bottomley ( 1874 1948) was an English poet, known particularly for his verse dramas. He was partly disabled by illness. His main influences were the later Victorians: Pre-Raphaelites and William Morris. He was born and educated in Keighley, Yorkshi - Robert BridgesRobert Seymour Bridges ( October 23, 1844 April 21, 1930) was an English poet, holder of the honour of poet laureate from 1913. Bridges was born in Walmer, Kent, and educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His first collection of poem - Rupert BrookeRupert Brooke ( August 3, 1887 April 23, 1915) was an English poet writing in the period immediately before and during the First World War. Biography He was born in Rugby, Warwickshire, the son of a Rugby schoolmaster, and was educated at Rugby School. - C. Kennett Burrow - A. Young Campbell - Joseph Campbell - Edward Carpenter - G. K. Chesterton - Richard Church - Padraic Colum - Frances Cornford - A. S. Cripps - Gerald Crow - H. D. - Charles Dalmon - W. H. Davies - Walter De la Mare - Alfred Douglas - John Drinkwater - A. E. - Helen Parry Eden - V. Locke Ellis - Godfrey Elton - Eleanor Farjeon - Michael Field - J. E. Flecker - F. S. Flint - Robin Flower - John Freeman - V. H. Friedlander - Norman Gale - R. L. Gales - Wilfrid Gibson - Louis Golding - Douglas Goldring - Robert Graves - Thomas Hardy - Ralph Hodgson - F. M. Hueffer - Aldous Huxley - Violet Jacob - James Joyce - M. M. Johnson - Rudyard Kipling - D. H. Lawrence - Francis Ledwidge - Shane Leslie - W. M. Letts - S. R. Lysaght - Rose Macaulay - John Masefield - H. J. Massingham - Charlotte Mew - Alice Meynell - Harold Monro - T. Sturge Moore - Thomas Moult - Neil Munro - Henry Newbolt - Robert Nichols - Wallace B. Nichols - Alfred Noyes - Moira O'Neill - Seumas O'Sullivan - Wilfred Owen - Herbert E. Palmer - Douglas Pepler - Victor Plarr - Max Plowman - Ezra Pound - Ernest Rhys - Edgell Rickword - Isaac Rosenberg - Siegfried Sassoon - William Kean Seymour - Edward Shanks - Horace Shipp - Fredegond Shove - Edith Sitwell - Sacheverell Sitwell - C. Hamilton Sorley - J. C. Squire - James Stephens - L. A. G. Strong - Muriel Stuart - Arthur Symons - Edward Thomas - Herbert Trench - W. J. Turner - Katharine Tynan - Evelyn Underhill - M. M. Webster - Anna Wickham - Humbert Wolfe - M. L. Woods - W. B. Yeats

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