Even though he was once one of Britain's most popular writers, the
reputation of the poet and memoirist W.H. Davies has, in recent
decades, gone into decline. Davies's colourful early life as a hobo
and a tramp - captured by his most famous work The Autobiography of
a Super Tramp - and his apparently 'innocent' poems about nature,
tales about the seamier sides of life, his experiences on the road
and verse portraits of those characters he met there - has led to
the Welsh poet being placed under the cosy heading 'Georgian'. It
has been a tag which does serious disservice to the tone, nature
and ambition of Davies's lyrics. As poet and critic Michael Cullup
shows in this brief but insightful exploration of the entirety of
Davies's output - the memoirs, the short stories as well as the
poems - there was a more complex personality than the one suggested
by his public persona. True, he was a figure at home with the
Georgian literary world - Edward Thomas and Hilaire Belloc were
close friends - yet he was also capable of impressing more
avant-garde talents like Ezra Pound and Jacob Epstein. In this
bracing reappraisal Cullup judiciously undermines preconceived
notions of Davies the writer to reveal a poetic imagination richer,
more insightful, more thoughtful than that for which he is
generally given credit. Included in this critical biography is a
generous and illustrative selection of Davies's verse.
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