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William Henry Davies (3 July 1871 [a] – 26 September 1940) was a Welsh poet and writer, who spent much of his life as a tramp or hobo in the United Kingdom and the United States, yet became one of the most popular poets of his time.
- Welsh
- Helen Matilda Payne, (m. 5 February 1923)
- Poet, writer, tramp
In his poems, grounded in realism, Davies often engaged themes of hardship, the natural world, and city life. His 20 collections of poetry include The Soul’s Destroyer and Other Poems (1905), Nature...
William Henry Davies (born July 3, 1871, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales—died Sept. 26, 1940, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, Eng.) was an English poet whose lyrics have a force and simplicity uncharacteristic of the poetry of most of his Georgian contemporaries.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
William H Davies. 1871-1940 • Ranked #172 in the top 500 poets. William Henry Davies was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales. His father was, at the time a Publican. After an apprenticeship as a picture-frame maker and a series of labouring jobs, he travelled to America, first to New York and then to the Klondike.
The Complete Poems of W. H. Davies. Born in Chicago, scholar and poet Ralph Mills earned a BA from Lake Forest College and an MA and PhD from Northwestern University, and also studied at Oxford University. Mills is the author of 13 volumes of poetry, including Living with Distance (1979), winner of the Society of Midland Authors...
Biography. The Welsh poet William Henry Davies wrote the poem ‘Leisure’, which famously begins:‘What is this life if, full of care,/We have no time to stand and stare.’. The poem’s theme is reflected in Davies’s own outdoor life, which was unconventional. Leaving Wales, he worked and begged his way across America, losing a leg in an ...
In poetry, he ranks as a master of the English lyric, his main themes being nature and love; and, at his best, his poems compare favourably with the finest lyrics of the English language. His chief works are: The Complete Poems of W. H. Davies, 1944, and later, in prose, Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, Beggars, and Later Days. Author
