Frank Pearce Sturm: his life, literary friendships and collected works

Abstract

The thesis as presented consists of an introductory study of Sturm's life and thought, and a complete text of his collected works including early essays and poems published periodically but never reprinted, an unpublished play, and notes from a diary kept between 1934 and 1940, as well as the translations, essays, and original poems published in book form. In outlining the poet's life and the development of his thought what evidence remains of his personal relationship with W,B. Yeats and other literary figures of the time is reviewed, and some attention concentrated on possible exchanges of idea and expression.