Book description
Prior to the First World War T. E. Hulme was one of the most
original and striking creative personalities in England, strongly
admired by both Pound and Eliot. Yet he died in 1917, virtually
unknown. A key figure in the genesis of Modernism, Hulme mixed among a
great range of gifted artists and was never shy of courting
controversy. Unusually among poets of his generation, he was convinced
of the rightness of Britain's role in the war (and criticised Bertrand
Russell for his pacifism.) Robert Ferguson offers the first modern
biography of Hulme, drawing upon access to Hulme's papers and later
interviews with his associates. 'A humane, comprehensive biography...
By the end, Ferguson's final judgment of his subject - 'the
conservative character at its best' - seems justified.' Jeremy
Noel-Todd, Observer
Robert Ferguson was born in Blackpool in 1948. After completing
Norwegian studies at University College in London, he took up a state
scholarship in Norway in1983, and has since then lived in Oslo. Ferguson
is an award-winning dramatist and has translated and adapted several of
Ibsen's plays for the BBC. Apart from Henrik Ibsen: A New Biography he
is also the author of two other highly acclaimed biographies, Enigma:
The Life of Knut Hamsun and Henry Miller: A Life.
