St. John Lucas
St. John Welles Lucas-Lucas, commonly known as St. John Lucas, (1879–1934) was an English poet known for his anthologies of verse. He was educated at University College, Oxford. He was from 1905 a friend and mentor of Rupert Brooke.[1]
Lucas wrote short stories and vignettes for Blackwood's Magazine and Open Window. His The Oxford Book of French Verse was published by the Clarendon Press in 1907. A selection of his stories was published in book form by William Blackwood and Sons in 1919 under the title Saints, Sinners, and the Usual People.[2]
He is described in Mike Read's Forever England: The Life of Rupert Brooke as "a homosexual aesthete".[3]
References[]
- ^ "Friends: Brooke's admission". King's College, Cambridge. June 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
- ^ "Review of Saints, Sinners, and the Usual People". The Spectator Archive. 23 December 1911. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
- ^ Forever England: The Life of Rupert Brooke (2015), p. 8
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