Hedley Lucas

[deguonis]

What do y'all opine about Hedley Lucas?
Very obscure indeed. As far as I know, he's absent from general anthologies, hasn't been printed since 1970, very few info about him or stuff by him online, he hasn't been much discussed or widely reviewed.... but he wrote a lot !
And published a lot during a span of 37 years!

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Hedley Lucas (1880-1971), English.

Books :

Contacts . 1933
Self-flight . 1935
Poems, 1935
See You a City . 1937
As beauty comes . 1939

Homage to Cheshire . 1949
Collected poems, 1933-1953
Later poems, 1954-1960
Inward light . 1965
Truth's highway . 1968
Abiding . 1970

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Partial extract of poem. I suppressed some words ;

IN SALE PARK

Since here I give ** how I take,
To flower *** bird *** tree
And ******** love I homage make
*** happy fantasy.

And ** I native **, and sense
A primal *** of strength,
I **** *** binding fence ding
Of now, *** go * fancy's length,

Far as in *** of youth I knew,
Smelling *** dreamy flowers,
And voicing ***** that grew.

[tailor STATELY]

Found "Give us the foot and the bridle paths" by Hedley Lucas at https://pnfs.org.uk/downloads/signpost/signpost72p.pdf... Enjoyed

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor