T. E. Hulme

Thomas Ernest Hulme was an English philosopher, critic and translator, best known for introducing Henri Bergson's thought to English readers and for his essays on art and "classical" against "romantic" attitudes, collected after his death as Speculations (1924).

In 1908–09 he gathered the circle of poets around the Poets' Club who met in London to talk about a poetry of hard, exact images, a group often seen as the forerunner of Imagism. Ezra Pound printed Hulme's five poems as an appendix, "The Complete Poetical Works of T. E. Hulme", to his Ripostes (1912).

Hulme enlisted in the Honourable Artillery Company at the outbreak of the First World War and was killed in action near Nieuport, Belgium, on 28 September 1917.