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Frederic Manning

1882–1935

Frederic Manning was born in Sydney in 1882 and settled in England as a young man, where he was part of the literary circles of Ezra Pound and Edmund Gosse. He published Poems in 1910 and The Vigil of Brunhild before the war.

He enlisted in 1915 and served on the Somme, an experience that shaped Eidola (1917), a collection of war poems and lyrics, and the war novel The Middle Parts of Fortune. He died in 1935.

Poems (45)

  1. The Choosers
  2. Sacrifice
  3. Relieved
  4. Reaction
  5. The Old Calvary
  6. The Guns
  7. The Sign
  8. A Shell
  9. The Face
  10. Wind
  11. Bois de Mametz
  12. The Trenches
  13. Leaves
  14. Transport
  15. Autarkeia
  16. Epigram, R. B.
  17. Now
  18. Grotesque
  19. Desire
  20. Blue and Gold
  21. Ganhardine's Song
  22. The Soul's Answer
  23. Winter
  24. The Faun
  25. The Cup
  26. Paroles Sans Musique
  27. Danae
  28. Worship
  29. To a Girl
  30. Eros Athanatos
  31. Demeter Mourning
  32. The Lost Angel
  33. The Mocking Song
  34. The Mother
  35. Meditation
  36. The Honey Gatherer
  37. Crocus Song
  38. The Image Seller
  39. Simaetha
  40. To the Unknown Goddess
  41. Hurleywayne
  42. To Sai
  43. The Shepherds' Carol of Bethlehem
  44. Past
  45. The Beloved

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