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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> JOHN GRAY once considered the ‘typical’ poet of the 1890s a close friend of Oscar Wilde before the advent of Lord Alfred Douglas was born into a working. class family in Bethnal Green London in 1866. Forced at the age of 13 to leave school and take a job in Woolwich Arsenal he continued to educate himself in his spare time and entered the Civil Service. While working as a clerk in the Foreign Office he frequented the Rhymers’ Club and the Playgoers’ Club and got to know W.B. Yeats Arthur Symons Enest Dowson Aubrey Beardsley and other writers and artists. His own talents as a poet and writer of fiction were recognised and encouraged by Oscar Wilde with whom his brief but intense friendship came to an end in 1893. His first book of poems Silverpoints had caused something of a sensation; but in 1898 he left London to study for the priesthood in Rome. Ordained in 1901 the rest of his life was spent in Edinburgh where he virtually developed a new identity as well as a more ‘modern’ technique both in prose and verse. Charles Ricketts R.A. and the two ladies who wrote the poetry of ‘Michael Field’ were among the friends whom he retained from the ’90s to whom he added such new ones as Eric Gill and the poet Gordon Bottomley. Aided by his wealthy friend Andr? Raffalovich poet novelist and essayist he created the beautiful church of St Peter in Falcon Avenue South Edinburgh designed by Sir Robert Lorimer.