Five Fascinating Facts about T. E. Hulme
Facts about poet and thinker T. E. Hulme 1. Hulme wrote what is arguably the first modern poem in the English language. There are numerous candidates for who was the first truly modern English poet,...
View ArticleA Short Analysis of T. E. Hulme’s ‘Above the Dock’
An analysis of a classic imagist poem T. E. Hulme (1883-1917) wrote very different poetry from the verse composed by his near-contemporaries, ‘Georgian’ poets such as Rupert Brooke and John Drinkwater...
View ArticleA Short Analysis of T. E. Hulme’s ‘A Lecture on Modern Poetry’
A summary of a key modernist essay There are numerous documents which might be described as ‘manifestos’ for modernist poetry in English – Ezra Pound’s ‘A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste’ springs to mind –...
View ArticleA Short Analysis of T. E. Hulme’s ‘Romanticism and Classicism’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Romanticism and Classicism’ by T. E. Hulme (1883-1917) was posthumously published as part of the 1924 collection Speculations but probably written in...
View ArticleT. E. Hulme’s War Poem: ‘Trenches: St Eloi’
In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle celebrates the poet and thinker who died 100 years ago this week On 28 September 1917, T. E. Hulme was killed in action in...
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