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John Drinkwater (1 June 1882 – 25 March 1937) was an English poet and dramatist. He was known before World War I as one of the Dymock poets, and his poetry was included in all five volumes of Georgian Poetry (edited by Edward Marsh, 1912–1922).
May 28, 2024 · John Drinkwater was an English poet, playwright, and critic, remembered as a typical man of letters of the Georgian age of the 1910s and 1920s. He was a successful promoter of repertory theatre in England and the author of popular chronicle dramas.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
English poet and playwright John Drinkwater was born in London. At age 15, he left school to work as a junior clerk for an insurance company in Nottingham. In his poetry, he often related ephemeral imagery to themes of personal growth, war, and natural beauty.
For three decades, from early in the twentieth century until he died in 1937, John Drinkwater was a consummate man of the theater—a playwright, actor, producer, director, and critic.
a prolific poet, dramatist, critic, and actor. His work appeared in all five volumes of Georgian Poetry, and was collected in 1933 in Summer Harvest. He wrote many plays, including Abraham Lincoln (1918), Oliver Cromwell (1921), Mary Stuart (1922), and a successful comedy Bird in Hand (1927).
He was a poet, playwright, essayist, anthologist, actor, theatre producer and director, in addition to his day-to-day job as manager of Barry Jackson’s Birmingham Repertory Theatre – described by Drinkwater as “the most distinguished playhouse in the country” when it opened in February 1913.
A poet, playwright, essayist and editor, John Drinkwater was born in Leytonstone, London. He left school at fifteen and turned to literature after a short career working as an Insurance Agent. His first published poetry collection was ‘Poems: 1903 (C. Combridge, Birmingham).
