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May Wedderburn Cannan was born in Oxford, England, on October 14, 1893. She attended school in Kent before joining the Oxford’s branch of the Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment in 1911. After World War I began, she volunteered at the railway canteen in Rouen, France. Cannan published her first collection of poetry, In War Time (Blackwell), in 1917. She went on to publish The House of Hope (Humphrey Milford, 1923) and The Splendid Days (Blackwell, 1919), as well as a novel, The Lonely Generation (Hutchinson, 1934). An autobiography, Grey Ghosts and Voices (Roundwood Press, 1976), was published posthumously. Canaan returned to England for financial reasons before the war was over. She worked at the Oxford University Press and for the War Office in Paris before serving as an assistant editor of Oxford Magazine. In 1924 she married Percival J. Slater, and they kept a small farm in Staffordshire. She died in 1973.
Florence Margaret "Stevie" Smith was born in 1902 in Yorkshire, England. Her
T. E. Hulme, one of the founders of the imagist movement, was born on September 16,...
Born in 1874, Amy Lowell was deeply interested in and influenced by the Imagist movement and she...
Often associated with the Imagist movement, Ford Madox Ford was the author of numerous poetry...
The author of numerous collections of poetry, novels, and translation, Robert Graves fought in...
Arthur Davidson Ficke was born in Davenport, Iowa, in 1883. He published several poetry...