In the present age of literary specialization Douglas Goldring's intellectual range and diversity of interests is striking. The author of more than fifty books, he was a biographer, travel writer, poet, novelist, short-story writer, historian, critic, dramatist, and autobiographer. In addition, he had a keen interest in architecture, painting, travel, politics, and fine wines. In South Lodge: Reminiscences of Violet Hunt, Ford Madox Ford and the English Review Circle (1943) Goldring recalls his indignation at being called a mere journalist by Joseph Conrad at a time when the twenty-one-year-old Goldring thought of himself solely as a poet. Despite his literary works being praised by such contemporaries as Ford Madox Ford, Ezra Pound, James Elroy Flecker, D. H. Lawrence, and Romain Rolland, neither his novels nor his poems have enjoyed sustained critical interest. The fact that the strong autobiographical impulse in his writing is combined with a sense of history...