W. R. Titterton
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William Richard Titterton (1876 – 1963) was a British journalist, writer and poet now remembered as the friend and first biographer of G. K. Chesterton. Titterton and Chesterton met on the London Daily News (Titterton, G. K. Chesterton, p.75). Titterton was also in practical terms the organiser of Chesterton's Distributist League and sub-editor of G. K.'s Weekly.
In his younger days he wrote copiously for A. R. Orage's The New Age. He was also the model for some of Jacob Epstein's nude sculptures. Later under Chesterton's influence he became a Catholic convert.
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- River Music and other poems (1900)
- Love Poems (New Age Press, c 1908)
- An Afteroon Tea Philosophy (1910)
- The Drifters (1910)
- Me As A Model (1914)
- London Scenes (1918)
- Guns and Guitars (1918) poems
- Drinking Songs and other songs (1928)
- A Candle to the Stars (1932) interviews
- GK Chesterton: A Portrait (1936) biography
- Poems for the Forces (1943)
- London Pride (1944)
- So this is Shaw (1945) biography
- Poems: A Backward Glance (1959)
