I lived from 1882-1935. I was from Australia, and am in the Oceania category.
Frederick Manning was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1882. Prevented by Asthma from attending the usual educational institutions, he was taught largely at home, and at the age of sixteen was sent to England to live with a family friend, Arthur Galton, a rural clergyman who knew Ezra Pound, Max Beerbohm and Richard Aldington. Soon Manning was writing narrative poems, essays and stories in the style of the period, and was also reviewing for the Spectator. In 1914 he joined the army, and as a soldier in the ranks ultimately fought in the terrible battles on the Somme. In 1929 he published, privately and anonymously, The Middle Parts of Fortune, his novel about military life. Because its language was thought too obscene for general circulation an expurgated edition, titled Her Privates We, was issued in 1930. Later, Manning wrote as a journalist for a time and travelled in search of better health. He died in London in 1935 and it was only in 1943 that his name appeared on the title page of his book.
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My poetry
- Endless lanes sunken in the clay,
Bays, and traverses, fringed with wasted herbage,39 lines - Yea, she hath passed hereby, and blessed the sheaves,
And the great garths, and stacks, and quiet farms,18 lines - A frail and tenuous mist lingers on baffled and intricate branches;
Little gilt leaves are still, for quietness holds every bough;15 lines
