Mark Simpson on the ‘English Whitman’ (Independent on Sunday, 5 October, 2008 — unedited version) On his 80th birthday in 1924, five years before his death, the socialist Utopian poet, mystic, activist, homophile, environmentalist, feminist and nudist Edward Carpenter received an album signed by every member of Ramsay MacDonald’s Labour Cabinet. Glowing tributes appeared in …
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