reilly p 170

Ralph Hodgson (9 September 1871 – 3 November 1962) was an English poet, very popular in his lifetime on the strength of a small number of anthology pieces, such as The Bull. He was one of the more 'pastoral' of the Georgian poets. In 1954, he was awarded the King's Gold Medal for Poetry.

Hodgson was in the Royal Navy and then the British Army. His reputation was established by Poems (1917).

Ralph Hodgson (1871-1962)

Hodgson worked as a journalist and was editor of Fry's Journal. Between the wars he taught English in Japan, like Edmund Blunden, but chose not to return to England. Instead he became a farmer in Ohio and a US citizen. His view of nature was mystical and warned against modern man's estrangement from his habitat.