About
British poet and author whose works include Wilding Graft (novel) and The Clay Verge (poems). He also published a 1949 autobiography entitled Confessions of a Rebel.
Before fame
He was raised by his mother after his father was killed in World War I.
Trivia
He went deaf at age twenty and blind at age thirty-nine.
Family life
He married Ruth Peaty when he was fifty-two years old and expressed his tremendous love for her in his later poetry.
Associated with
He was born in the same year as British Labour Party politician Harold Wilson.
