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He was born in Wednesbury , Staffordshire , and graduated from the University Of Birmingham in 1933 . He went into teaching, married, and settled in Lincolnshire . In World War II he served as an intelligence officer in the RAF .

He was also involved in the editing of poetry anthologies, ''The New Apocalypse'' (1939) with J. F. Hendry giving its name to a Movement ; two further anthologies with Hendry followed. He was working on a critical book about Dylan Thomas , which would have been the first such study; but they fell out when Thomas refused to sign up as a New Apocalyptic .

He edited issues of ''Transformation'', and ''A New Romantic Anthology'' (1949) with , as well as ''War-Time Harvest''. ''How I See Apocalypse'' (London, Lindsay Drummond, 1946) was a retrospective statement.