At Wild Court, edited by Robert Selby, my essay ‘A Shilling Book from Praed Street’ about the poet and editor Daniel George, and his forgotten but fascinating journal poem, To-morrow will be Different (1932).
This simply and frankly recounts a day in his life, including a country walk, going to the pub, flashbacks to the trenches, and a cottage tea with friends. Clemence Dane described it as ‘loquacious, quotatious, funny, tragic, coarse’.
(Mark Valentine)
I've got one or two of George's anthologies, but not the ones in which he collects various bits of gloom and doom--these sound particularly attractive, neatly complementing Hugh Kingsmill's anthologies of invective. I must look for them.--md
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