Victor Benjamin Neuburg

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Victor Benjamin Neuburg (May 6, 1883 - 1940) was an English poet and writer, particularly on theosophy, remembered for his early association with Aleister Crowley, and his publication of the early Dylan Thomas.

He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He took up with Crowley for a number of years, eventually suffering a breakdown; The Triumph of Pan (1910) dates from this period. He served in World War I, and then lived in Steyning, Sussex. There he ran a small press, the Vine Press.

In 1920 Neuburg published a collection of ballads and other verse under the title 'Lillygay'. Many of these were actually from earlier ballad collections, though it seems Neuburg was unaware of this. Some of the poems were his own. In 1923 Peter Warlock set five of these verses to music, with the same title 'Lillygay'.

He edited Poet's Corner in The Sunday Referee from April 1933 for a period, assisted by A. L. Morton. Before Thomas he published also Pamela Hansford Johnson.

He died from tuberculosis.

[edit] References

• Magic of my Youth Arthur Calder-Marshall (Hart-Davis, 1951)
• The Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuburg Jean Overton Fuller (W.H.Allen, 1965)