Charles M. Doughty

Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926) was an English poet and traveller, born in Suffolk and educated at Cambridge. He is best known for Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888), his account of two years among the Bedouin, written in a deliberately archaic English modelled on Chaucer and the Elizabethans.

He turned to verse late in life. The Dawn in Britain (1906), a blank-verse epic in twenty-four books on the early history of Britain, was followed by Adam Cast Forth (1908), The Cliffs (1909), The Clouds (1912), The Titans (1916) and Mansoul (1920). His poems were little read in his lifetime, but admired by later poets for their austere, Spenserian diction.