Who is Richard Arthur Warren Hughes

Richard Arthur Warren Hughes (19 April 1900 – 28 April 1976) was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays.He was born in Weybridge, Surrey. His father was Arthur Hughes, a civil servant, and his mother Louisa Grace Warren who had been brought up in the West Indies in Jamaica. He was educated first at Charterhouse School and graduated from Oriel College, Oxford in 1922.A Charterhouse schoolmaster had sent Hughes's first published work to the magazine The Spectator in 1917. The article, written as a school essay, was an unfavourable criticism of The Loom of Youth, by Alec Waugh, a recently published novel which caused a furore for its account of homosexual passions between British schoolboys in a public school. At Oxford he met Robert Graves, also an Old Carthusian, an...
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  • The Singing Furies
    The yellow sky grows vivid as the sun:
    The sea glittering, and the hills dun.

    The stones quiver. Twenty pounds of lead ...
  • Moonstruck
    Cold shone the moon, with noise
    The night went by.
    Trees uttered things of woe:
    Bent grass dared not grow: ...
  • Vagrancy
    When the slow year creeps hay-ward, and the skies
    Are warming in the summer's mild surprise,
    And the still breeze disturbs each leafy frond
    Like hungry fishes dimpling in a pond, ...
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