Travels extensively in Europe
Poet involved
What happened
After his marriage to Peggy Baird ended, Johns traveled throughout Europe for three years, supported by the proceeds from his successful play. He visited multiple countries, absorbing the cultural and literary currents of the continent.
Literary impact
The European sojourn exposed Johns to the international modernist movements that were reshaping literature on both sides of the Atlantic, broadening his aesthetic horizons and deepening his engagement with political and social questions. The experience of displacement and cultural immersion would inform his later poetry and his autobiographical writing, lending his work a more cosmopolitan perspective.
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