Walter J. Turner — a remark

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“It is futile to declaim vaguely against all popular music.”

Defending the value of popular forms that express ordinary life · Article, New Statesman (1921)

About Walter J. Turner

Walter J. Turner

13 October 1884–18 November 1946

In the pantheon of early twentieth-century poetry, certain names blaze with enduring brilliance while others flicker in the margins of literary history, their contributions underappreciated or nearly forgotten. Walter James Redfern Turner, born on October 13, 1884, in South Melbourne, Australia, belongs to this latter…

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