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Geoffrey Smith
1881–1916
A gifted young English poet whose life was cut short in the First World War, he is often remembered for the promise of his verse and for his close friendship with the circle that included J. R. R. Tolkien. His poems were gathered after his death in A Spring Harvest, giving readers a brief but vivid glimpse of a talent lost too soon.
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The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 04 (of 10)
by Geoffrey Smith, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Cecil Warburton, Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, Henry Woods
About the author
Born in 1894, Geoffrey Bache Smith was an English poet and a member of the Birmingham school friendship group later known as the T.C.B.S., which also included the young J. R. R. Tolkien. He studied at Oxford and wrote poetry while keeping close ties with that circle of friends, whose encouragement mattered deeply to one another.
During the First World War, he served in the British Army. He was wounded by shellfire in France in 1916 and died later that year, still only in his early twenties. Because his life was so short, his reputation rests on a small body of work and on the strong impression he made on the friends who survived him.
His best-known book is A Spring Harvest, a posthumous collection introduced by Tolkien. Readers often come to him through that connection, but his poems have continued to interest people in their own right for their sincerity, lyric grace, and sense of unrealized promise.