Male : Poet, who spent many years tramping Britain & America. Lost his right foot jumping a freight train. A Civil List pension was granted him in 1911. Married Helen Payne in 1923

Nationality : Welsh Place of Birth : Newport, Monmouthshire

Date of Birth : 1871 Date of Death : 1940 Age : 69

Other Work : Apprentice picture frame-maker

1905-1910
The Soul's Destroyer & Other Poems (1905 PP for the Author, Farmhouse, Marshalsea Rd, SE London)
(1907 Alston Rivers)
New Poems (1907 Elkin Mathews 1/6) - 1000
(1913 EM. 2nd Printing) - 1000
Nature Poems and Others (1908 A C Fifield, London)
The Autobiography of a Supertramp (1908 A C Fifield, London 6/-) (1917 Knopf)
- Preface by Bernard Shaw
Beggars (1909 Duckworth)
Farewell to Poesy and Other Pieces (1910 Fifield)
Songs of Joy and Others (1910 Fifield)

1911-1920
A Weak Woman : A Novel (1911 Duckworth)
The True Traveller (1912 Duckworth)
Foliage : Various Poems (1913 Elkin Mathews 1/6)
Nature (1914 Batsford Fellowship Books) - Edited by Mary Stratton
The Bird of Paradise & Other Poems (1914 Methuen)
Child Lovers and Other Poems (1916 Fifield)
Collected Poems (1916 A C Fifield, London) (1916 Knopf NY)
A Poet's Pilgrimage (1918 Andrew Melrose, London)
Forty New Poems (1918 Fifield)
Raptures : A Book of Poems (1918 Cyril Beaumont) - 22 Numbered on Japanese Vellum
The Song of Life & Other Poems (1920 Fifield)

1921-1925
The Captive Lion (1921 Yale UP)
(Selected by) Shorter Lyrics of the 20thC 1900-1922 (1922 Poetry Bookshop, London)
The Hour of Magic & Other Poems (1922 Cape, at the Sign of the Dolphin) - William Nicholson
- 110 Large paper signed by Author & Artist
Collected Poems : Second Series (1923 Cape) + 100 signed
Selected Poems (1923 Cape) - Stephen Bone
True Travellers : A Tramps Opera in 3 Acts (1923 Cape) - decorations by William Nicholson
- 100 signed by Author & Artist
Secrets : Poems (1924 Cape) - Dora M Batty
(Intro & Biographical Notes) Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (1924 Simpkin, Marshall)
Later Days (1925 Cape) - autobiography
A Poet's Alphabet (1925 Cape) - 125 signed. Dora M Batty
W H Davies : The Augustan Book of Poetry (1925 Ernest Benn)

1926-1930
The Song of Love (1926 Cape) - Dora M Batty
The Adventures of Johnny Walker - Tramp (1926 Cape)
Dancing Mad : A Novel (1927 Cape)
A Poet's Calendar (1927 Cape) - Dora M Batty
Moss and Feather (1928 Faber Ariel Poem) - William Nicholson. 500 Large Paper signed by Davies
Collected Poems (1928 Cape)
Forty-Nine Poems (1928 Medici Society) - Jacynth Parsons
Selected Poems (1928 Gregynog Press, Newtown) - 310. Augustus John frontis
Ambition & Other Poems (1929 Cape) - 210 signed
(Compiler) Jewels of Song : An Anthology of Short Poems (1930 Cape)
(In) The Best Poems of 1930 (selected by Thomas Moult) (1930 Cape)

After 1931
In Winter : A Poem (1931 PP by Fytton Armstrong) - Edward Carrick
Poems 1930-1 (1932 Cape) - Elizabeth Montgomery
My Birds (1933 Cape) - Hilda M Quick
My Garden (1933 Cape) - Hilda M Quick
The Lovers' Song-Book (1933 Gregynog Press) - 250
The Poems of W H Davies : A Complete Collection (1934 Cape)
Love Poems (1935 Cape)
The Birth of Song (1936 Cape)
The Loneliest Mountain (1939 Cape)
Common Joys (1941 Cape)
The Poems of W H Davies (1940 Cape) - Laura Knight
Collected Poems (1943)
Complete Poems (1963)
Young Emma (1980 Cape £5.95) - autobiographical novel written 1924, and here first published

READING
Thomas Moult : W H Davies (1934 Thornton Butterworth)
(Ed) Brian Waters : The Essential W H Davies (1951 Cape)
Richard J Stonesifer : W H Davies - A Critical Biography (1963 Cape)
Helen Thomas : A Memory of W H Davies (1973 Tragara Press)
Sylvia Harlow : W H Davies - Bibliography (1993 St Paul's Bibliographies £48)