Richard Hughes (British writer)

Richard Arthur Warren Hughes (19 April, 1900 – 28 April, 1976) was a writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays. Quotes Puddings should beFull of currants, for me:Boiled in a pail,Tied in the tailOf an old bleached shirt:So hot that they hurt. "Poets, Painters, Puddings", Gipsy-Night, and Other Poems (Chicago: Will Ransom, 1922), p. 29 I saw the World’s arches,The spreading roots of light,The high wordy pillarsThat hold all upright,The deep verbal fundamentWhereon rests sureThe world on thoughtful vaulting,Interlocked, secure. "Ecstatic Ode on Vision", in The Saturday Review of Literature, vol. 2, no. 4 (22 Aug., 1925), p. 67 External links Category:Living people Category:1900 births Category:1976 deaths Category:Novelists from England Category:Poets from England Category:Short story writers from England Category:Playwrights from England Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Category:University of Oxford alumni