—: In Hospital :—
Since tonight I must die why do they keep the window open, so that the April air flows in from the mountains, and why do they place by my bed this vase of spring violets.
Edward Storer (1880-1944)
P: The Living Age (1913+), Bruno's Weekly (1915), The Egoist (1915), The Nation (1919), Voices (1920), The English Review (1920), Broom (1922), The Sackbut (1923); A: At A Venture: Poems by Eight Writers (1917); C: Inclinations (1907), Mirrors of Illusion (1908), The Ballad of the Mad Bird (1909); translations, articles, etc.
Born in Alnwick, lived in Rome, and then returned to England, living in Weybridge, London. One of the founders of the ‘School of Images’ group in 1908, with F.S. Flint and T.E. Hulme—some of the earliest English free verse poets, inspired by French vers libre, and the Japanese tanka and haiku (the influence of tanka is obvious on the poem above, for instance)—which also featured Florence Farr and Ezra Pound, among others.
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