Charles William Dalmon (1862–1938) was a British poet, 1890s decadent, 1920s film designer, and friend of
Noël Coward
Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what ''Time'' magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and ...
.
Life
Dalmon was a contributor to ''
The Yellow Book
''The Yellow Book'' was a British quarterly literary periodical that was published in London from 1894 to 1897. It was published at The Bodley Head Publishing House by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, and later by John Lane alone, and edited by th ...
'', and was published in ''The Living Age'', in the mid-1890s. His poems subsequently appeared in many anthologies, but his reputation was never bright. Jean Moorcroft Wilson notes that
Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both describ ...
and
Ralph Hodgson planned to publish "small, neglected authors", into which group Dalmon fell with
Thomas Ashe and
Primovard Dugard.
There are ascriptions to Dalmon of
Manx
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* Manx people
**Manx surnames
* Isle of Man
It may also refer to:
Languages
* Manx language, also known as Manx ...
songs and
ballads, which may be collector's or editor's rather than author's credits. ''O what if the fowler my blackbird has taken?'' is given as by him, but there is a related old ballad. ''The (Red) Fuchsia Tree'', set by
Roger Quilter and
John Raynor
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He spent a season a ...
, is attributed to Dalmon but may be traditional.
In December 1934, Charles Dalmon 'Sussex poet' and 'descendent of Tudor Court Favourite' joined the British Union of Fascists.
[The Blackshirt, 7 December 1934, p.10]
Works
*''Minutiae'' (1892)
*''Song Favours'' (1895)
*''Flower And Leaf'' (1900)
*''A Poor Man's Riches'' (1922)
*''Singing As I Go'' (1927)
*''The Last Service'' (1928)
External links
* Archive Material a
Leeds University Library
Notes
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1862 births
1938 deaths
British poets
British male poets