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W. J. Turner

1889–1946


Walter James Turner (1889–1946) was a poet and critic, born in Melbourne, Australia, who settled in England and became known as a music and drama critic as well as a Georgian poet.

His poem Romance, here taken from Untermeyer's Modern British Poetry (1920), is his most famous.

  1. Romance
  2. Ecstasy
  3. Magic
  4. The Hunter
  5. The Sky-sent Death
  6. The Caves of Auvergne
  7. Silence
  8. Kent in War
  9. Talking with Soldiers
  10. Song
  11. The Princess
  12. Peace
  13. Death

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