E. H. W. Meyerstein

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Edward Harry William Meyerstein (August 11, 1889 – September 12, 1952) was an English writer and scholar, now remembered mostly for his Life Of Thomas Chatterton. He wrote poetry and short stories, and the posthumously-published novel Bollond. Occasional music criticism also appeared under his name in the journal Music Survey. Meyerstein worked in the manuscript room of the British Museum, and was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.

He was born in London, educated in Eastbourne and then Harrow School, before going up to Magdalen. His verse was published in Oxford Poetry 1910-13 and later volumes.

He was known for miserly habits; he made important bequests and established the Chatterton Lectures on Poetry. He was a disconcerting friend, with a taste for rather cruel or sinister jokes. A very unflattering portrait is given by John Wain in his autobiography Sprightly Running, of the whip collection and implied taste for flagellation.

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Symphonies (1915) poems
Grobo (1925)
The Pleasure Lover: Being some account of the early life and fortunes of Terence Duke (1925)
A Life of Thomas Chatterton (1930)
New Symphonies (1933) poems
The Pageant and Other Stories (1934)
Selected Poems (1935)
A Boy of Clare (1937) poems
Eclogues (1941, Richards Press) poems
Adventures by Sea of Edward Coxere(1946) editor
The Delphic Charioteer (1951) poems
Verse Letters to Five Friends (1954)
Of My Early Life (1957) autobiography
Bolland and Other Stories (1958)
Some Poems (1960)