Frank Prewett
Frank James Prewett (born February 24, 1893 in Mount Forest , Ontario , † February 16, 1962 in Inverness ) was a Canadian - British poet .
Life
Frank Prewett lived in the UK after leaving Canada in 1915 to fight in World War I. He served in the Royal Field Artillery in the British Army in France. Discharged from military service after an injury, he went to Craiglockhart Hospital to recover , where he met Siegfried Sassoon and the two became friends.
Prewett wrote poetry during the war, and Edward Marsh included a selection in his collection Georgian Poetry 1920–22 (1922). From 1924/25 to about 1937 he had a research position at the Agricultural Research Institute at Oxford University . He wrote for agricultural magazines and also worked for the BBC in the 1930s .
In the Second World War he was again in action. James Prewett died in Inverness and is buried in Fifield.
literature
- Andrew Coppolino, A Canadian in the Gasington Circle: Frank Prewett's literary friendships. Studies in Canadian Literature. Available online here
Works
- Georgian Poetry 1920–22 in the Gutenberg project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prewett, Frank |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Prewett, Frank James (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian-British poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mount Forest , Ontario |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 16, 1962 |
| Place of death | Inverness |