Gordon Bottomley Summary

Gordon Bottomley devoted his artistic energies to poetry and to poetic drama in the manner of William Butler Yeats. He had published two volumes of poems before he turned to drama at the beginning of ... Read more

In the following excerpt, McMahan offers a favorable review of A Vision of Giorgione. [A] beautiful specimen of book-making is Mr. Gordon Bottomley's A Vision of Giorgione, which has all the da... Read more

In the following excerpt, Firkins reviews Gruach and Britain's Daughter. Mr. Gordon Bottomley in his early British plays [in Gruach and Britain's Daughter] takes us so very far in so sho... Read more

The following review offers a positive assessment of Gruach and Britain's Daughter. How large Mr. Bottomley's audience for his verse dramas is going to be, either in the theatre or in th... Read more

In the following essay, Warren reviews Poems of Thirty Years. Perhaps one of the best known of Mr. Bottomley's poems is “The End of the World.” In frozen phrases, light as the fla... Read more

In the following excerpt, Spanos focuses on the religious pageant The Acts of Saint Peter. Like the post-Romantic poetic Histories, the pre-Canterbury Pageant drama sought to infuse poetry into Biblic... Read more