Maurice Baring (1874-1945). Courtesy World War I and English Poetry.
| Maurice Baring | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Writing period | 20th century |
Maurice Baring (27 April 1874 – 14 December 1945) was a versatile English poet, dramatist,novelist, translator, and essayist, also known as a travel writer and war correspondent.
Life[]
Baring was the eighth child, and fifth son, of Edward Charles Baring, first Baron Revelstoke, of the Baring banking family, and his wife Louisa Emily Charlotte Bulteel, granddaughter of the second Earl Grey. Born in Mayfair,[1] he was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.[2] After an abortive start on a diplomatic career, he travelled widely, particularly in Russia. He reported as an eye-witness on the Russo-Japanese War for the London Morning Post.[3]
At the start of World War I he joined the Royal Flying Corps, where he served as assistant to Henderson and Trenchard in France. In 1918 Baring served as a staff officer in the Royal Air Force and was appointed OBE. In 1925 Baring received an honorary commission as a wing commander in the Reserve of Air Force Officers. After his death, Trenchard wrote, "He was the most unselfish man I have ever met or am likely to meet. The Flying Corps owed to this man much more than they know or think."[4]
After the war he enjoyed a period of success as a dramatist, and began to write novels. He suffered from chronic illness in the last years of his life; for the final 15 years of his life he was debilitated by Parkinson's Disease.
He was widely connected socially, to some of the Cambridge Apostles, to The Coterie, and to the literary group around G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc in particular. He was staunch in his anti-intellectualism with respect to the arts, and a convinced practical joker.
Previously an agnostic,[5] he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1909, "the only action in my life which I am quite certain I have never regretted."[6] Speaking from personal experience, however, he once advised Belloc to "never, never, never talk theology or discuss the Church with those outside it. People simply do not understand what you are talking about and they merely (a) get angry and (b) come to the conclusion that one doesn't believe in the thing oneself and that one is simply doing it to annoy."[4]
Publications[]
- The Black Prince and Other Poems (1903)
- With the Russians in Manchuria. (1905) London: Methuen. OCLC 811786
- Forget-me-Not and Lily of the Valley (1905) Humphreys
- Sonnets and Short Poems (1906)
- Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories (1909) short stories
- Dead Letters (1910) satirical collection
- The Glass Mender and Other Stories (1910)
- Letters from the Near East (1913)
- Lost Diaries (1913) fictional extracts from diaries of notable people
- Flying Corps Headquarters 1914-1918 (1920)
- Passing By (1921) novel
- The Puppet Show of Memory (1922) autobiography
- Overlooked (1922) short story
- Poems 1914-1919 (1923)
- C (1924) novel
- Punch and Judy and Other Essays (1924)
- Half a Minute's Silence and Other Stories (1925)
- Cat's Cradle (1925) novel
- Daphne Adeane (1926) novel
- Tinker's Leave (1927) novel
- Comfortless Memory (1928) novel
- The Coat Without Seam (1929) novel
- Robert Peckham (1930) historical novel
- In My End is My Beginning (1931) biographical novel about Mary Stuart
- Lost Lectures (1932) imaginary lectures
- The Lonely Lady of Dulwich (1934) novella
- Darby and Joan (1935) novel
- Have You Anything to Declare? (1936) collection of notes and quotes
- Collected Poems (1937) poetry
- Maurice Baring: A Postscript by Laura Lovat with Some Letters and Verse (1947)
- Maurice Baring Restored: Selections from His Work (1970) chosen and edited by Paul Horgan
- Dear Animated Bust: Letters to Lady Juliet Duff, France 1915-1918 (1981)
- Letters (2007) selected and edited by Jocelyn Hillgarth and Julian Jeffs
- Baring also edited The Oxford Book Of Russian Verse published by Clarendon (1924)
See also[]
References[]
- Bleiler, Everett Franklin (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. OCLC 1113926; re-published in 1972, The Checklist of Fantastic Literature: A Bibliography of Fantasy, Weird and Science Fiction Books Published in the English Language. Naperville, Illinois: FAX Collectors Editions. OCLC 1438931
- Horgan, Paul (1970). Maurice Baring Restored: Selections from His Work. London: Heinemann. 10-ISBN 0-434-34790-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-434-34790-2; OCLC 113239
- Letley, Emma (1991). Maurice Baring: A Citizen of Europe. London: Constable. 10-ISBN 0-094-69870-8; 13-ISBN 978-0-094-69870-3; OCLC 27147821
Notes[]
- ↑ Maurice Baring
- ↑ Baring, the Hon. Maurice in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
- ↑ Mosley, Charles (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage (Vol. 3), p. 3324; Baring, Maurice (1906). With the Russians in Manchuria, p. vi.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Read, Piers Paul (2007). "What's become of Baring?", The Spectator, 10 October 2007. Reprinted in Chesterton Review, Spring-Summer 2008, pp. 309-311.
- ↑ Baring, Maurice (1910). Letter dated 3 May 1910
- ↑ Baring, Maurice (1922). The Puppet Show of Memory, pp. 395-396.
External links[]
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- Works by Maurice Baring at Project Gutenberg
- Catholic Authors Biography by Joseph Pearce
- Portraits of Maurice Baring in the National Portrait Gallery (London).
- [1] Biography by Joseph Pearce Translated to Spanish
- Archival material relating to Maurice Baring listed at the UK National Register of Archives
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