Dreaming of Babylon: The Life and Times of Ralph Hodgson

Ralph Hodgson was already a brilliant graphic artist and an innovator in the field of Victorian children's comics when, in the early 1900s, he began producing poetry imbued with a spiritual passion for the beauty of creation and the mystery of existence. Naturally drawn to animals, particularly birds and dogs, he was one of the first major poets of the last century to highlight the threat posed dto nature by mankind's greed. Admired by T S Eliot, John Berryman, Stephen Spender and ee cummings, his work has condinuted to draw praise from more contemporary writers. In writing this first-ever biography, Harding has been able to draw on a wealth of previously unseen documents from libraries and collections on both sides of the Atlantic.