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THE MOON by William H. Davies

THE MOON by William H. Davies

Published On Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Under: 1800s, 1900s, Davis, William H..
According to his own biography, William H. Davies was born in a public-house called Church House at Newport, in the County of Monmouthshire, April 20, 1870, of Welsh parents. He was, until Bernard Shaw "discovered" him, a cattleman, a berry-picker, a panhandler—in short, a vagabond. In a preface to Davies' second book, The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1906)

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