Charles Heavysege is considered one of the greatest Canadian writers of plays and poetry yet he did not emigrate to that country until he was in his 30s. He also made his name there as a journalist, in Montreal. He was English-born and yet Canadian literature critics seem to have claimed him as one of their own. They considered him a serious ...
Charles Henry Souter was a Scottish born poet and artist who lived for much of his life in Australia. He was a qualified medical practitioner and worked often as a locum doctor while finding the time to make a significant contribution to South Australian literature. He was born on the 11th October 1864 in the city of Aberdeen which lies on the north ...
Captain Charles John Beech Masefield, MC was one of the many young men of England who went to war in France and never came back. From the privileged surroundings of his Staffordshire home to the horrors of the front line proved to be a life-changing experience for the cousin of a future Poet Laureate, John Masefield. An England that had, for ...
The English writer Charles Langbridge Morgan was primarily a novelist and playwright and, to a much lesser degree, he was a poet who had his poems published initially in the Westminster Gazette during the early part of the 20th century. In 1917 his wartime poem To America achieved great recognition when it was included in A Treasury of World Poetry, a collection edited ...
The Scottish writer often known as C K Scott Moncrieff was most famous for his translation of Marcel Proust’s seven volume novel À la recherche du temps perdu into English, which he renamed Remembrance of Things Past. This work, although critically well received, was not entirely to the liking of the originator and Proust wrote to Moncrieff to tell him so. A ...
