Ralph Hodgson

Ralph Hodgson ( born September 9, 1871 in Darlington, Durham, † November 3, 1962 in Minerva, Ohio) was an English poet, publisher and translator.

Life and work

In the years after 1890 Hodgson began to publish under the name of Yorick drawings at London's Weekly Magazine of Sports and Out Door Life. In 1912 he was co-founder of At the Sign of the Flying Flame publisher.

In 1907 he published his first collection of poems under the title The Last Blackbird and Other Lines. Edward Marsh took his poems in the collection of Georgian Poetry 1913-1915 (1915 ) and Georgian Poetry 1916-1917 (1917 ). In 1917 he went with his band Poems a name as an independent poet.

From 1932-1938 taught Hodgson at Tohoku University English in Sendai, Japan and translated Japanese lyric into English.

In 1938 he settled with his third wife, Lydia Aurelia Bollinger in Minerva (Ohio ).

In 1954 the King's Gold Medal for Poetry, he was awarded.