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Douglas Goldring
1887–1960
An English writer, journalist, poet, and travel author, Douglas Goldring captured the energy of early twentieth-century literary life and the changing world around him. His work blends memoir, cultural observation, adventure, and sharp reflections on war and society.
2 Audiobooks
Streets, and other verses
by Douglas Goldring
In the town : A book of London verses
by Douglas Goldring
About the author
Born in Greenwich on January 7, 1887, Douglas Goldring attended Oxford briefly in 1906–07, where he encountered literary figures including D. H. Lawrence. In 1910, he launched the little magazine The Tramp, publishing early work by Lawrence and the futurist F. T. Marinetti. That same year he brought out his first poetry collection, A Country Boy, and Other Poems, followed by the travel book Ways of Escape in 1911.
Goldring served briefly in the British Army at the beginning of the First World War but received a medical discharge. He later became a pacifist and wrote The Fortune (1917), an early fictionalized account of wartime objection. Across his career, he produced poetry, novels, journalism, memoirs, and travel books, including The Black Curtain, Reputations, Artist Quarter, The Nineteen Twenties, and Foreign Parts.
He died in Deal, Kent, on April 9, 1960, leaving behind a varied body of work shaped by literary modernism, travel, political change, and personal experience.