Ernest Radford

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Ernest Radford (18571919) was an English poet, critic and socialist. He was a follower of William Morris, and one of the organisers in the Arts and Crafts Movement; he acted as secretary to the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society.

He was also one of the Rhymers' Club group of poets of the 1890s, contributing to the two anthologies they produced. He married in 1883 Caroline Maitland (1858 – 1920), generally known as Dollie Radford, and also a poet and writer.

[edit] Works

  • From Heine (1882) translations
  • Measured Steps (1884)
  • Chambers Twain (1890)
  • Old And New (1895)
  • A Collection Of Poems (1906) with others
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1908) biography
  • Songs In The Whirlwind (1918) with Ada Radford
  • The Poems of Walter Savage Landor