English poet, born at Ashton-upon-Mersey, Cheshire, on the 9th of January 1881, and educated at Malvern and Victoria University, Manchester, where he studied science. His first work, Interludes and Poems, appeared in 1908, and his other works include Mary and the Bramble (1910); The Sale of St. Thomas (1911); Emblems of Love (1912); Deborah (1912); Speculative Dialogues (1913) and The Epic (1914), besides a critical study of Thomas Hardy (1912). He was in 1919 appointed lecturer in Poetry at the university of Liverpool. See also “Hymn to Love,” etc.
