T.E. Hulme - Fragments & Other Verse, T.E. Hulme - Fragments & Other Verse

T.E. Hulme - Fragments & Other VerseForgotten Poets #3 / forgottenpoets.substack.com'Fragments & Other Poems' brings together a generous collection of around 30 of T.E. Hulme's poems, English poet and one of the founders of Imagism. Including selections from 'Fragments' (published posthumously in 1921) and 'The Complete Poetical Works of T.E. Hulme' (first published as an afterword to Ezra Pound's Ripostes, in 1912); with the essays 'Lecture on Modern Poetry' (1908) and 'Cinders' (1906-7); and illustrations from The New Age (1913-14), by Walter Bayes, Tom Titt, Ruth Thornhill Doggett, Hubert Piers, John P. Flanagan, Walter Sickert, et al.. . . . . . . . .-: Autumn :-A touch of cold in the Autumn nightI walked abroad,And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedgeLike a red-faced farmer.I did not stop to speak, but nodded,And round about were the wistful starsWith white faces like town children.. . . . . . . . .-: Musie :-Over the void, a desert, a flat empty space,Came in waves, like winds,The sound of drums, in lines,Sweeping like armies.Dreams of soft notesSail as a fleet at eveOn a calm sea.. . . . . . . . .The Forgotten Poets Newsletter presents: new collections of out-of-print and obscure poetry, with a focus on compressed & fragmented 'free' and 'new verse' from the late-1800s & early-1900s, & the early history of English-language tanka & haiku. Verses are carefully selected & spaciously laid-out, adorned with illustrations & ornaments from the books & magazines they originally appeared in. These are not "reprints" of previously published books, but newly crafted collections, lovingly edited from public domain material, for the serious poetry lover.