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George Allen Upward (1863 – 12 November 1926)〔(''New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors'' )〕 was a poet, lawyer, politician and teacher. His work was included in the first anthology of Imagist poetry, ''Des Imagistes'', which was edited by Ezra Pound and published in 1914. He was a first cousin once removed of Edward Upward. Upward was brought up as a member of the Plymouth Brethren and trained as a lawyer at the Royal University of Dublin (now University College Dublin). While living in Dublin, he wrote a pamphlet in favour of Irish Home Rule. Upward later worked for the British Foreign Office in Kenya as a judge. Back in Britain, he defended Havelock Wilson and other labour leaders and ran for election as a Lib/Lab candidate in the 1890s. He wrote two books of poetry, ''Songs of Ziklag'' (1888) and ''Scented Leaves from a Chinese Jar''. He also published a translation ''Sayings of Confucious'' and a volume of autobiography, ''Some Personalities'' (1921). Upward wrote a number of now-forgotten novels: ''The Prince of Balkistan'' (1895), ''A Crown of Straw'' (1896), ''A Bride's Madness'' (1897), ''The Accused Princess'' (1900) (source: Duncan, p. xii), "'The International Spy: Being a Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War''" (1905), and ''Athelstane Ford''. His 1913 book ''The Divine Mystery'' is an anthropological study of Christian mythology. In 1908, Upward self-published a book (originally written in 1901) which he apparently thought would be Nobel Prize material: ''The New Word''. This book is today known as the first citation of the word ''"Scientology"'', although it is used in the book in a disparaging way to describe ''"science elevated to unquestioning doctrine"''. It is unknown whether L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Scientology-organization, knew of this book. In 1917 the British Museum refused to take Upwards' manuscripts, "on the grounds that the writer was still alive," and Upward burned them (source: Duncan, p. xi). He shot himself in November 1926. Ezra Pound would a decade later satirically remark that this was due to his disappointment after hearing of George Bernard Shaw's Nobel Prize award which Shaw won in 1925. ==References== * Sheldon, Michael. Introduction to ''Scented Leaves from a Chinese Jar, A Selection''. (Interim Press, 1987). * Robert Duncan. Introduction to ''The Divine Mystery''. (Ross-Erikson, Santa Barbara, 1976). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Allen Upward」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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