A radio biography of the poet
W. H. Davies
Written and produced by P. H. Burton
W. H. Davies was born on April 20, 1871, in Newport, Monmouthshire, and he died on September 26, 1940. The programme concentrates on the story of the first half of his life-his boyhood in Newport, his wanderings in the U.S.A. and Canada, his fight for recognition as a poet. It is a tale full of adventure, comic and tragic; full of suffering, in mind and body; and full of courage, moral and physical. This poet lived a life that was itself a heroic poem.
(The recorded broadcast of October 22 in the Welsh Home Service)