Group    From 1890  To 1895

Rhymers' Club

Categories: Poetry

Group

The Rhymers' Club met at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese where they read their poems aloud, criticised each other's work and published together. Members included: Yeats, Arthur Symons, Richard Le Gallienne, Ernest Dowson.

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Rhymers' Club

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Wine Office Court

The Rhymers' Club is not specifically mentioned on the plaque but Ye Olde Che...

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Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

Poet.  Born and died Lisbon.

Person, Poetry, Portugal

1 memorial
Alice Meynell

Alice Meynell

Poet and journalist.  Alice Thompson was born in Barnes.  Her paternal grandmother was an unmarried Creole.  Educated with her sister entirely by their father as they lived a peripatetic life mainl...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Poetry, Italy

1 memorial
Eric Mackay

Eric Mackay

The Wikipedia entry for Mackay is worth a read - it's short and not kind; describing him as a "minor' poet, and using terms such as "sponging", "execrable", "laziness and lack of scruples" and repe...

Person, Poetry

1 memorial
A. E. Housman

A. E. Housman

Alfred Edward Housman. Born near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire. Classical scholar, lyrical poet. On his twelfth birthday his mother died. He initially failed his degree at Oxford but went on to be a...

Person, Poetry

2 memorials
Alfred William Hunt

Alfred William Hunt

Born Bold Street, Liverpool. Son of the painter William Henry Hunt.  Poet and landscape painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He won the Newdigate Prize in 1851 for his poem ‘Nine...

Person, Art, Benefactor, Poetry

2 memorials