Ernest Radford

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Ernest Radford (1857 – 1919) 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[1].

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.[2]

[edit] Works

  • From Heine (1882) translations
  • Measured Steps (1884)
  • The Poems of Walter Savage Landor (1889)
  • 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

[edit] Reference

  • Ann MacEwan, Ernest Radford and the First Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 1888, The Journal of William Morris Studies, 17.1 (Winter 2006): 94, pp. 27-38.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Ann MacEwen summary1
  2. ^ LeeAnne Richardson - Naturally Radical: The Subversive Poetics of Dollie Radford - Victorian Poetry 38:1
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