Charles Morgan
Peter Holland considers the work of an English poet who explored ‘the eternal verities’
The name of Charles Morgan (1894-1958) is little known today, but in Hemlock and After (a 1952 novel by Angus Wilson), he is spoken of in the same breath as TS Eliot, JB Priestley and Somerset Maugham. 
As a novelist, playwright, essayist and critic he was a major force in English literature; in the 1930s-1940s he was awarded the Femina-Vie Heureuse, the Hawthornden and the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes. In the 1950s he was president both of International PEN and the English Association.
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