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Thomas Ernest Hulme (September 16, 1883 – 28 September 1917) was an English writer, who during his informal tenure from 1909 as critic for The New Age, edited by A. R. Orage, exerted a notable influence on London modernism. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ... The New Age was a British literary magazine, noted for its wide influence under the editorship from 1907 to 1922 of A. R. Orage. ... Alfred Richard Orage was a socialist known for editing the magazine New Age. ... For Christian theological modernism, see Liberal Christianity and Modernism (Roman Catholicism). ...

He is known also as a poet, but wrote little: The Complete Poetical Works of T.E. Hulme was published in The New Age in 1912, at which point it consisted of five poems. He does have the claim to have been the original Imagist poet; and to have formulated with clarity the manifesto. This had a direct effect on Ezra Pound. He also influenced T. S. Eliot through his critical writings, in which he famously distinguished between Romanticism--a style informed by a belief in the infinite in man and nature, famously characterized by Hulme as "spilt religion"--and Classicism, a mode of art stressing human finitude, formal restraint, concrete imagery, and, in Hulme's words, "dry hardness".^[1] Ezra Pound, one of the prime movers of Imagism. ... Ezra Pound in 1913. ... Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965), was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. ... Romantics redirects here. ... Classicism door in Olomouc, The Czech Republic Teatr Wielki in Warsaw Church La Madeleine in Paris Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for classical antiquity, as setting standards for taste which the classicist seeks to emulate. ...

Hulme also had a major impact on Wyndham Lewis (quite literally, in terms of their competition for Kate Lechmere). In art he championed Jacob Epstein, and David Bomberg, and was a friend of Gaudier-Brzeska, as well as being in at the birth of Lewis's BLAST and vorticism. Wyndham Lewis in 1916 Percy Wyndham Lewis (November 18, 1882 – March 7, 1957) was a Canadian-born British painter and author. ... Jacob Epstein photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 Sir Jacob Epstein (10 November 1880 – 19 August 1959) was an American-born Jewish sculptor who worked chiefly in the UK, where he pioneered modern sculpture, often producing controversial works that challenged taboos concerning what public artworks appropriately depict. ... David Bomberg (December 5, 1890 – August 19, 1957) was a British painter. ... Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (4 October 1891-5 June 1915) was a French sculptor who developed a rough hewn, primitive style of direct carving. ... The cover of the first edition of BLAST was bold and shocking to its potential readership in 1914. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Early life

He was born at Gratton Hall, Endon, in Staffordshire. He was educated at Newcastle-under-Lyme High School and St John's College, Cambridge from 1902; he read mathematics, but was sent down in 1904 (after Boat Race night and rowdyism — he was thrown out of Cambridge another time in a scandal involving a Roedean girl). Endon is a small town in the county of Staffordshire, England, south west of Leek, Staffordshire and south east of Biddulph. ... Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. ... , For the larger local government district, see Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme. ... College name The College of Saint John the Evangelist of the University of Cambridge Motto Souvent me Souvient (Latin: I often remember) Named after The Hospital of Saint John the Evangelist Established 1511 Location St. ... Boat Race Logo Exhausted crews at the finish of the 2002 Boat Race The Boat Race is a rowing race between the rowing clubs of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. ... Roedean School Roedean School is an independent girls school on the outskirts of Brighton, United Kingdom. ...

He tried to pick up the threads of his studies at University College, London. He then travelled to Canada, roughing it. He also spent time in Brussels, acquiring languages. The Front Quad University College London, commonly known as UCL, is one of the colleges that make up the University of London. ... For other places with the same name, see Brussels (disambiguation). ...

Proto-modernist

From about 1907 he was interested in philosophy, translating Henri Bergson, and sitting in on lectures in Cambridge. He also translated Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence. The most important influence on his thought appears to have been first Bergson, and later Wilhelm Worringer (1881-1965), German art historian and critic; and in particular his Abstraktion und Einfühlung (Abstraction and Empathy, 1908). These he synthesized with his own muscular proto-modernism and intense combativeness. For other uses, see Philosophy (disambiguation). ... Henri-Louis Bergson (October 18, 1859–January 4, 1941) was a major French philosopher, influential in the first half of the 20th century. ... Georges Eugène Sorel (2 November 1847-29 August 1922) was a French philosopher and theorist of revolutionary syndicalism. ... Wilhelm Worringer (* 1881 in Aachen; † 1965 in Munich) was a German art historian. ...

Hulme also at this time developed an interest in poetry, not sustained longer than a few years in fact. He was made secretary of The Poets' Club, formal and attended by establishment figures (Edmund Gosse and Henry Newbolt); here he encountered Pound, and F. S. Flint, a poetic follower. In late 1908 he delivered his paper A Lecture on Modern Poetry to the club. Robert Frost met Hulme in 1913, and was influenced by his ideas.^[2] Hulme's extremely robust, and in many ways indefensible, approach to life did combine with a more outgoing nature than some. Edmund William Gosse (September 21, 1849 - May 16, 1928) was an English poet, author and critic, the son of Philip Henry Gosse. ... Sir Henry John Newbolt (June 6, 1862 - April 19, 1938) was an English author and poet. ... Frank Stuart Flint (December 19, 1885 - February 28, 1960) was an English poet and translator who was a prominent member of the Imagist group. ... // W.B. Yeats in Dublin on 24 January, 1908 Ezra Pound leaves America for Europe. ... A Lecture on Modern Poetry was a paper by T. E. Hulme which was read to the Poets Club around the end of 1908. ... Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. ...

His politics were conservative, and he moved towards a far-right position. He had contact in 1911 with Pierre Lasserre, associated with Action Française. This can be seen as presaging the 'tough-minded' attitudes that would permanently mar the reputations of Lewis and Pound. Pierre Lasserre (1867-1930) was a French literary critic, journalist and essayist. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

World War I

Hulme volunteered as an artilleryman in 1914, and served in the British Army in France. He kept up his writing for The New Age, with 'War Notes', written as "North Staffs", and 'A Notebook' containing some of his most organised critical writing. He was wounded in 1916. Back at the front in 1917 he was killed by enemy fire in Nieuwpoort, in Flanders. The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... Nieuwpoort is the name of a Belgian municipality and a Dutch village: Nieuwpoort, Belgium Nieuwpoort (mun. ... For other uses, see Flanders (disambiguation). ...

See also

• A Lecture on Modern Poetry

A Lecture on Modern Poetry was a paper by T. E. Hulme which was read to the Poets Club around the end of 1908. ...

Works

• Georges Sorel, "The Ethics of Violence." Reflections on Violence (1912) translator
• Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art (1924) edited by Herbert Read
• Notes on Language and Style (1929)
• T. E. Hulme, The collected writings (1996, OUP) edited by Karen Csengeri
• Selected writings (2003, Fyfield Books)

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References

• The Life and Opinions of T. E. Hulme (1960) Alun Jones,
• T. E. Hulme (1982, Carcanet Press reprint) Michael Roberts
• The Short Sharp Life of T. E. Hulme (2002) Robert Ferguson

Michael Roberts (William Edward Roberts) (6 December 1902 - 13 December 1948) was a British poet, writer, critic and broadcaster, who made his living as a teacher. ...

Notes

1. ^ Hulme, T.E. "Romanticism and Classicism." Selected Writings. Ed. Patrick McGuinness. New York: Routledge, 2003. 68-83.
2. ^ Hoffman, Tyler: Robert Frost and the Politics of Poetry, page 54. University Press of New England, 2001. ISBN 1-58465-150-4