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Herbert Trench




He was born in Avonmore, County Cork , and educated at Haileybury and Keble College, Oxford . From 1891 he worked as an examiner for the Board of Education.

In 1908 an Opera written by Joseph Holbrooke for Trench's poem ''Apollo and the Seaman'' was performed, under Thomas Beecham . Trench then moved into theatrical work for a few years, collaborating with his friend Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard De Walden . They put on ''The Blue Bird'' by Maeterlinck in 1909, and Ibsen 's ''The Pretenders'' in 1913, at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket .

He then spent time travelling. He died in Boulogne-sur-Mer .

Some other poems of his were set to music by Arnold Bax .


WORKS


  • Deirdre Wed and other Poems (1901)

  • New Poems (1907)

  • Lyrics and Narrative Poems (1911?)

  • Ode from Italy in time of War (1915)

  • Napoleon (1919) play

  • Poems (1924, Cape)