The Short Sharp Life of T. E. Hulme - Tapa dura

T. E. Hulme was one of the leading lights of the Imagist movement in British verse. He counted among his friends and literary companions Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, Walter Sickert and Rupert Brooke. At the outbreak of war he joined the British army and was killed in 1917 at the age of 34. Hulme was unusual in that he never became disillusioned with war, but remained convinced of the morality of Britain's position. As well as his interest in Hulme as a character and as a political agent, he also explores how this robust and energetic man came to write what Eliot called 'some of the finest short poems in the English language'.

Robert Ferguson has written four literary biographies and translations of several Norwegian writers, including Henrik Ibsen and Knut Hamsun. He is also the author of original works for radio and television.