Teresa Hooley
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Teresa Hooley (1888-1973), known mostly for a war poem A War Film about World War I, was a pseudonym of Mrs. F. H. Butler. This much information is given in Modern Poetry 1922-1934 by Maurice Wollman; who adds some further biographical information that is hard to check. She was born at Risley, Derbyshire. She was published in a number of collections in the 1920s and 1930s.
[edit] A War Film
Hooley's poem A War Film describes the experience of seeing documentary footage of World War I, and refers to the Retreat from Mons, after one of the great battles of the Great War.
Although this is Hooley's most well known poem it is remarkably difficult to date accurately. The earliest published edition that can be readily located is in Out in the Dark: Poetry of the First World War in Context (ed. David Robert) which was published in 1998. It is certainly not published in Wintergreen, Twenty-Nine Lyrics, The Singing Heart, Selected Poems, or Eve and other Poems.
It can be assumed the poem was inspired by watching documentary footage about World War I. The earliest documentary was The Battle of the Somme (1916), but it is unlikely that a comtemporary writer would confuse the Battle of the Somme and the Retreat from Mons. It is therefore reasonable to conjecture that the 1926 film, Mons, was the most probable source.
[edit] Works
- Twenty-Nine Lyrics (1924, Cape)
- Collected Poems (1926, Cape)
- Songs of the Open: Collected Poems (1928)
- Eve and other Poems (1930)
- New Poems (1933)
- Orchestra (1935)
- The Singing Heart (1945, Frederick Muller Ltd.) Hardback, 87pp
(poems mostly on the subject of World War II) - Selected Poems (1947, Cape)
- Wintergreen (1959, A J Chapple) 32pp
other collections of poems (publication dates unknown):
- A Country Year
- Songs of All Seasons
