"T. E. Hulme was one of the most original and striking personalities in England in the years immediately preceding the First World War. He was admired by, amongst others, Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, who said that Hulme wrote t̀wo or three of the most beautiful short poems in the English language' and that his thought was t̀he forerunner of a new attitude of mind, which should be the twentieth-century mind'. Yet at the time of his death in Flanders in 1917, Hulme had published no book and his name was virtually unknown." "This is the first modern biography of Hulme and the first to make full use of his papers and the interviews given later in their lives by those who had known him well. It portrays a highly distinctive individual, his thought and his circle, and is an important addition to our understanding of his times."--BOOK JACKET.