Ralph Hodgson — a remark

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“When crises pall, humdrum is sensational.”

Ordinary life recovering its strangeness once catastrophe grows stale · Flying Scrolls, collected in The Skylark and Other Poems

About Ralph Hodgson

Ralph Hodgson

9 September 1871–3 November 1962

Ralph Hodgson was born on 9 September 1871 in Darlington, County Durham, and died on 3 November 1962 in Minerva, Ohio. His life traversed an astonishing stretch of history: the late Victorian industrial world, the upheaval of two world wars, the flowering and fragmentation of literary modernism, and the gradual…

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