Stuart, Francis, 1902-2000

Henry Francis Stuart was an Irish poet whose books were praised by William Butler Yeats and Poetry Magazine in Chicago. He lectured on modern English and Irish literature at Berlin University in the 1930's and in 1958 relocated to County Meath, Ireland. As a young man he served time for arms smuggling during the Irish civil war. The solitude and his conviction cementing his ambition to be an artist. The collector, Geoffrey Elborn, was born on February 27, 1950 in Scotland and had an extensive professional and writing career publishing poetry, fiction and biographies of writers who were less commercial, but critically important. He is quoted as saying "I prefer to write of the unfashionable". He published "Francis Stuart, A Life," in 1990.

From the description of Francis Stuart papers from the Geoffrey Elborn collection, 1902-1990. (Southern Illinois University). WorldCat record id: 213330577

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