T. E. Hulme - Fragments & Other Verse
Forgotten Poets #3 / forgottenpoets. substack. com
'Fragments & Other Poems' brings together a generous collection of around 30 of T. E. Hulme's poems, English poet and one of the founders of Imagism. Including selections from 'Fragments' (published posthumously in 1921) and 'The Complete Poetical Works of T. E. Hulme' (first published as an afterword to Ezra Pound's Ripostes, in 1912); with the essays 'Lecture on Modern Poetry' (1908) and 'Cinders' (1906-7); and illustrations from The New Age (1913-14), by Walter Bayes, Tom Titt, Ruth Thornhill Doggett, Hubert Piers, John P. Flanagan, Walter Sickert, et al.
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-: Autumn :-
A touch of cold in the Autumn night
I walked abroad,
And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge
Like a red-faced farmer.
I did not stop to speak, but nodded,
And round about were the wistful stars
With white faces like town children.
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The Forgotten Poets Newsletter presents: new collections of out-of-print and obscure poetry, with a focus on compressed & fragmented 'free' and 'new verse' from the late-1800s & early-1900s, & the early history of English-language tanka & haiku. Verses are carefully selected & spaciously laid-out, adorned with illustrations & ornaments from the books & magazines they originally appeared in.
