Hawthornden Prize
1 appearances
-
Edition 1 (1919) Winner
Edward Shanks
エドワード・シャンクス
Edowādo Shankusu
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1892-06-11 （London）
- Died
- 1953-05-04 age 60
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- London
Career
- Occupations
- poet, novelist, literary critic, journalist
- Active Years
- 1912-1953
- Affiliations
- London Mercury, Evening Standard, University of Liverpool
- Influenced By
- Hilaire Belloc
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood | — | — | — | — | England |
| Trinity College, Cambridge | — | History | B.A. | — | England |
Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
Country:
England
Trinity College, Cambridge
History
Degree:
B.A.
Year of Graduation:
1913
Country:
England
B.A. in history
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1919 | Hawthornden Prize | The Queen of China and Other Poems | — | — | winner |
Hawthornden Prize
1919
Work:
The Queen of China and Other Poems
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The People of the Ruins
1920 Science fictionA man wakes after suspended animation in 1924 to a devastated Britain 150 years later, with anti-communist subtext.
anti-communismfuture dystopia
Bibliography
- Songs (1915)
- Hilaire Belloc, the man and his work (1916)
- Poems (1916)
- The Queen of China and Other Poems (1919)
- The Old Indispensables (1919)
- The People of the Ruins (1920)
- The Island of Youth and Other Poems (1921)
- The Richest Man (1923)
- First Essays on Literature (1923)
- Fête Galante (1923)
- Bernard Shaw (1924)
- The Shadowgraph and Other Poems (1925)
- Collected Poems (1900–1925) (1926)
- The Beggar's Ride (1926)
- Second Essays on Literature (1927)
- Queer Street (1933)
- The Enchanted Village (1933)
- Poems 1912–1932 (1933)
- Tom Tiddler's Ground (1934)
- Old King Cole (1936)
- Edgar Allan Poe (1937)
- My England (1939)
- Rudyard Kipling – A Study in Literature and Political Ideas (1940)
- Poems 1939–1952 (1953)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- traditional metrical versecritical prose
- Recurring Motifs
- memories of warfuture ruin
Health
-
war injuries1915Invalided out of WWI service in France, reassigned to administrative work
Legacy
Known as a World War I war poet, first recipient of the Hawthornden Prize. Also wrote science fiction, served as literary critic and journalist.
Trivia
- First recipient of the Hawthornden Prize
- Served in Artists' Rifles during WWI