Hope Mirrlees
British poet, novelist, and translator (1887–1978) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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(Helen) Hope Mirrlees (8 April 1887 – 1 August 1978) was a British poet, novelist, and translator. She is best known for the 1926 Lud-in-the-Mist, an influential fantasy novel,[1] and for Paris: A Poem (1920), an experimental poem published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press, which critic Julia Briggs deemed "modernism's lost masterpiece, a work of extraordinary energy and intensity, scope and ambition."[2]
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Born | Helen Hope Mirrlees (1887-04-08)April 8, 1887 Chislehurst, Kent |
Died | August 1, 1978(1978-08-01) (aged 91) Thames Bank, Goring, Oxfordshire |
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Literary movement | Literary modernism |
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