Autore: Davies W. H. Davies

W H Davies, born in Newport in 1871, is famous for his poem Leisure, which opens -"What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare". In A Poet’s Pilgrimage, published …

Between 1893 and 1899 Davies spent time drifting, begging and taking on seasonal work in America and Canada. He spent a cold Michigan winter in jail, floated down the Mississippi on a house-boat and …