“Sincerity, as a primal quality, holds, in general, a lower place than might be expected among the essential characteristics that form the standard of the average group.”

Notes how schools prize manner over candour · Book, Some Contemporary Poets, 1920

• Convention
• Poets
• Sincerity

“War monopolises the brain.”

A wartime editor admitting that public catastrophe crowds out criticism · Editorial apology, Poetry and Drama, September 1914

• Editors
• Mind
• War

“Child dear, I'm obsessed by one feeling only.”

Written the day after Britain entered the war · Letter to Alida Klementaski, 5 August 1914

• Emotion
• Letters
• War