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The 'Dymock Poets' are generally held to have comprised Robert Frost, Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson and John Drinkwater, some of whom lived near the village in the period between 1911 and 1914. Eleanor Farjeon, who was involved with Edward Thomas, also visited.
John Drinkwater (1 June 1882 – 25 March 1937) was an English poet and dramatist.He was known before World War I as one of the Dymock poets, and his poetry was included in all five volumes of Georgian Poetry (edited by Edward Marsh, 1912–1922).
Lascelles Abercrombie, FBA (9 January 1881 – 27 October 1938) [1] was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets". After the First World War he worked as a professor of English literature in a number of English universities, writing principally on the theory of literature.
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (2 October 1878 – 26 May 1962) was a British Georgian poet, who was associated with World War I but continued publishing poetry into the 1940s and 1950s. Early work [ edit ]
Dymock is renowned for its wild daffodils in the spring, and these were probably the inspiration for the line "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" in Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken", which was a gentle satire on his great friend, and fellow Dymock Poet, Edward Thomas.
c. April 8 – English poet Lascelles Abercrombie and his family move to live near Dymock in rural Gloucestershire, first of the Dymock poets [1] c. August – Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, who writes under the pen name " Guillaume Apollinaire ", is suspected in the theft of the Mona Lisa from The Louvre museum in Paris and imprisoned ...
Dymock is renowned for the Dymock poets, one of whom was the American poet Robert Frost. The Reverend Gethyn-Jones wrote about these poets in his first publication and in 1957 he was approached by the American Embassy with a request to escort Robert Frost, on a visit to receive an honorary degree from the University of Oxford, around the area ...
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 9 – Lascelles Abercrombie (died 1938), English poet and literary critic called the Georgian Laureate and one of the "Dymock poets" February 13 – Eleanor Farjeon (died 1965), English author and poet; February 15 – Piaras Béaslaí (died 1965), Irish writer and poet