Hosken, James Dryden (M)

Surname: Hosken
Forename(s): James Dryden
b. 1861. d. 1953. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Working-class poet. Born in Helston, Cornwall, and educated at Helston National School. Father was an iron founder. Worked for H. M. Customs in London from 1880. Suffered ill health, and moved back to Helston in 1899 where he worked as a postman. Publications include Phaon and Sappho (1891), Verses by the Way (1892). Biographical information: Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry, p. 232; VIAF (AC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 2
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Love and Earth’s Echoes 1892-01 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18973
“Visions of too lovely things” 1892-09 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18994