William Morris and His Earthly Paradises

Davies's astonishing chronicle of his attempt, at age fifty, to find a wife reveals, with honesty and candor, how the noted British poet searched for the right partner in the streets of London at the close of World War I

W. H. Davies (1871-1940) was a Welsh poet and writer who spent a significant part of his life as a vagabond in the United Kingdom and United States. He began publishing his own poetry in 1905 and became a popular poet in his time, mixing with leading figures of society.