“I must have been the most disappointed boy in England after I had…” — Ralph Hodgson

“I must have been the most disappointed boy in England after I had stopped him with many apologies and put my question, for I got the answer: Twenty minutes past four, my lad. The old man was stone deaf.”

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Ralph Hodgson

About 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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