Francis Brett Young

Francis Brett Young (1884–1954) was an English novelist, poet and physician, born in Halesowen, Worcestershire. He qualified in medicine at Birmingham and served as a ship's doctor and as an army medical officer in East Africa during the First World War. He is best known for novels set in the Midlands, such as My Brother Jonathan (1928).

He also wrote verse throughout his career. Edward Marsh included his poems in Georgian Poetry 1918-1919 and 1920-1922, from which the pieces here are taken.