Edgell rickword biography of nancy

John Edgell Rickword, MC (22 October – 15 March ) was an English poet, critic, journalist and literary editor.

Biography.

Rickword and Nancy Cunard – a productive relationship.

John Edgell Rickword, MC (22 October – 15 March ) was an English poet, critic, journalist and literary editor.

A detailed biography of Edgell Rickword that includes images, quotations and the main facts of his life.

Nancy Cunard () was heiress to the Anglo-American Cunard shipping line.

He became one of the leading communist intellectuals active in the s.

Early life

He was born in Colchester, Essex, where he attended the local grammar school. He served as an officer in the British Army in World War I, having joined the Artists' Rifles in , being awarded a Military Cross.

He was a published war poet, and collected his early verse in Behind the Eyes ().

On 4 January , Rickword developed an illness that was diagnosed as a "general vascular invasion which had resulted in general septicaemia".

His left eye was so badly infected that they thought it necessary to remove it to prevent the infection from spreading to the other eye.

He went up to Pembroke College, Oxford in , staying only four terms reading French literature, and leaving when he married.

Literary friends from this period included mainly other ex-soldiers: Anth