Indeed, Doughty was reduced to poverty for most of his life despite the wealth into which he had been born. The content as well as the use of language in The Oawn in Britain reflected Doughty's desire to champion a pure English language.ĭoughty's intense and unwavering commitment to reforming the English language may have alienated some of his contemporaries and affected his ability to achieve broad popularity.
In his own opinion, Doughty felt that his best work was Mansoul, a revision of which he was writing at the time of his death. Doughty's poem Adam Cast Forth was among his more successful works based on the Arabic legend of the Mountain of Recognition, it tells the story of Adam and Eve's reunification after they are banished from Eden. Auden, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Hugh MacDiarmid, and John Heath-Stubbs. However, Doughty's talents were recognized by such literary luminaries as the playwright George Bernard Shaw and the poets W.
The poem was reviewed poorly, as were most of Doughty's later poems. Doughty described the six-volume series as a poem written in the tradition In its manuscript form the poem was titled The Utmost Isle. Intensely patriotic, Doughty sought to glorify England's ancient history in his epic poem The Dawn in Britain, which appeared in 1906. (age 82) Theberton, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
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