The Fires of God: A postwar poem that counters the modern view of things

He initially worked as an insurance clerk before embarking on a career as a poet and playwright.

In the years before the Great War, he was one of six poets associated with the Gloucestershire village of Dymock who became known as The Dymock Poets and included the likes of Robert Frost, Rupert Brooke and Edward Thomas.

As a poet he began publishing in 1903 with his volume `Poems'. Whilst he was not overly prolific, he was the ...