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Hope Mirrlees

British translator, poet and novelist

Died when: 91 years 115 days (1095 months)
Star Sign: Aries

 

Hope Mirrlees

(Helen) Hope Mirrlees (8 April 1887 – 1 August 1978) was a British poet, novelist, and translator. She is best known for the 1926 Lud-in-the-Mist, a fantasy novel and influential classic, and for Paris: A Poem (1920), an experimental poem published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press, which critic deemed "modernism's lost masterpiece, a work of extraordinary energy and intensity, scope and ambition."


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