Walter J. Turner
Walter James Redfern Turner (born October 13, 1889 in Melbourne , † November 18, 1946 in Hammersmith , London ) was born in Australia and went to school there; but he moved to Great Britain to work as a writer there.
Live and act
Turner was friends with many poets, including Siegfried Sassoon and Virginia Woolf among his friends. Edward Marsh took his poems into the collection of Georgian Poetry 1916-17 (1917) and Georgian Poetry 1918-19 (1919). From the First World War into the 1930s, Turner was best known as a poet. But he also wrote biographies about composers, including Mozart , Beethoven and Berlioz .
Web links
- Georgian Poetry 1916–17 in the Gutenberg project
- Georgian Poetry 1918-19 in the Gutenberg project
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| SURNAME | Turner, Walter J. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Turner, Walter James Redfern (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Melbourne , Australia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1946 |
| Place of death | Hammersmith |