The book was written in the space of six weeks, 'a great achievement for a first book by a man with the minimum of education. The 1920 edition of the book concludes with five poems selected by Davies from The Soul's Destroyer. The book was the third published by Davies, having been preceded by The Soul's Destroyer (1905) and New Poems (1907). Davies and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Davies surprised his contemporaries with the unlikeliest portrait of the artist as a young man ever written. Shaw was also instrumental in keeping the unusual title of the book, of which Davies himself was unsure, and which later proved to be controversial with some reviewers. Autobiography of a Super-tramp, The (Library of Wales) by W H. A vagrant de Tocqueville gives an eloquent, dry-eyed report of his tramping adventures in the violent underworld of late 19th century America and Britain An untutored Welsh tramp who became a popular poet acclaimed by the conservative Georgians and the vanguard Ezra Pound alike, W. George Bernard Shaw had become interested in Davies, a literary unknown at the time, and had agreed to write a preface for the book, largely through the concerted efforts of his wife Charlotte. Davies Release Date: MaEBook 51425 Last Updated: MaLanguage: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SUPER-TRAMP Produced by Hlne de Minkand The Online Distributed Proofreading.

A large part of the book's subject matter describes the way of life of the tramp in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States in the final decade of the 19th century. Title: The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp Author: William H. The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp is an autobiography published in 1908 by the Welsh poet and writer W.

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