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HB. Unique & unpublished, probably bound by the Charltons? This is a research list that the authors, Anne & William Charlton assembled for writing their 2003 biography of Robert Nichols ("Putting Poetry First - A Life of Robert Nichols 1893-1944"). Bright yellow cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front stating "Robert Nichols Poems". 233 pages; NO contents/index/title page/preface/ISBN number : it just contains a very thorough chronological list of Nichols' poems, published and unpublished, titled and untitled, finished & unfinished. In most cases the poems are given in the text. For each poem there are notes as to:- where the original manuscript is; where and in what title published; or if in a letter who to; or which notebook it is in. Includes dramas as well as poems about death, war and love. Also, notes by the author concerning context or problems. Some recipients are various celebrities, e.g. Douglas Fairbanks, Robert Graves, etc. On f.f.e.p. there is an inscr. "Diana, with every good wish from Anne & Willie Charlton, September, 2003". Book tight and crisp. More about Nichols:- Poet and playwright Robert Nichols was born into a prestigious upper-class family from Essex. He studied at Winchester College and Trinity College, Oxford. He left Oxford at the outbreak of World War I and served as a second lieutenant in the Royal Field artillery, during the Battles of the Somme and of Loos. He only served in France during the summer of 1916 due to ill health. He began to give poetry readings, in 1917 and in 1918 he was a member of an official British propaganda mission to the USA. Nichols was one of the earliest recognized "soldier-poets" of World War I. After the war he moved in social circles in London; Aldous Huxley became a friend and correspondent, and Nichols wooed Nancy Cunard with sonnets, but married Norah Denny in 1922 at St Martin-in-the-Fields. From 1921 to 1924, Nichols was chair of English at Tokyo Imperial University, where he was a lecturer and translator of the 17th century Japanese poet Chikamatsu Monazemon. He later moved to Hollywood, working in theatre and cinema, where he advised Douglas Fairbanks. He lived in Germany and Austria in 1933-34. He then settled in the south of France, leaving in June 1940. Nichols also edited the Anthology of War Poetry, 1914-1918 (1943). He died in Cambridge and was buried in Essex at St Mary's Church, Lawford, Essex, next to the family home, Lawford Hall. On 11 November 1985, Nichols was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner. N° de ref. del artículo 005268
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