John Sparrow

Sent to preparatory school at the age of seven, WE obtained the rest of his education on scholarships, first at Winchester School , where his schoolmates included future academics William Hayter and John Sparrow and...

This friendship led to others for DW , for on Yeats's later visits she invited people to meet him, including Lord David Cecil , Sir William Rothenstein , Rex Whistler , H. A. L. Fisher

Its working title was Modernist Poetry Explained to the Plain Man. The first print-runs were a thousand copies in England and five hundred in the USA. A second impression followed in England in...