W. H. Davies 
The True Traveller [EPUB ebook] 
A Reader

W. H. Davies (1871-1940) was popularly though reductively known as the ‘tramp-poet’ due to his remarkable journey from vagrancy, in Britain and the United States, to considerable literary success. ‘Discovered’ in part by Edward Thomas, who admired his poetry, Davies became a prolific memoirist and occasional writer of fiction, criticism and drama. He is now known almost exclusively for a handful of poems and for his memoir The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp; his other writing has long been out of print. This book collects generous selections from Davies’s prose memoir, poetry, and critical prose, alongside comprehensive notes by the editor. It brings back into print the work of a remarkable, controversial and unduly neglected author.

About the author

Rory Waterman was born in Belfast and grew up mostly in rural Lincolnshire. He has written two books on twentieth-century poetry and is a critic for various publications, and his poems have appeared in the TLS, New Poetries V (Carcanet, 2011), Poetry Review, New Statesman, Guardian, Financial Times, PN Review and elsewhere. He teaches English at Nottingham Trent University. Tonight the Summer’s Over, his first collection, is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Prize. He also co-edits New Walk poetry and arts magazine.