[Thomas Sturge]. English poet, art critic and engraver, born at Hastings, Sussex, on the 4th of March 1870. He published the Vinedresser and other Poems (1899); Aphrodite against Artemis (1901); Absalom, a play (1903); The Little School (1905, enlarged edition 1917); Marianne (1911); The Sea is Kind (1914); and other collections of poetry, as well as prose studies of Altdorfer, Dürer, Correggio and others, and several volumes of essays, Art and Life (1910); Hark to these Three (1915); Some Soldier Poets (1919); etc. In 1920 he published two new poems Danaë and Aforetime, and a prose idyll Blind Thamyris. See also “The Dying Swan,” “Silence Sings,” “Isaac and Rebekah,” “A Duet” and “Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vinedresser.”
