Leading off in Many Directions—Poems of Victor Gustave Plarr

Abstract

Dr Ian Fletcher, Reader in English at the University of Reading, has 
edited and collected Plarr's work in an attractive book published by Eric & Joan Stevens (London, 1974) as a limited edition of 750 copies.

Dr Fletcher's introduction and notes indicate the kind of writing to be found
in Plarr's work and place him In the late nineteenth century and Edwardian
environment. Among such figures as W.B. Yeats, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Richard Aldington, Arthur Symons and Ernest Rhys (editor of
The Everyman Library), Victor Plarr may not seem very significant, but Dr Fletcher has edited his work with such justice and understanding that you feel you will lose something of the experience of the nineties if you do not take writing like Plarr's into consideration. At the least he records contemporary impressions of the seminal figures of his period, before anyone could look into the future and see which seed would grow and which would not.