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Clifford Bax (13 July 1886 – 18 November 1962) was a versatile English writer, known particularly as a playwright, a journalist, critic and editor, and a poet, lyricist and hymn writer. He also was a translator (for example, of Goldoni). The composer Arnold Bax was his brother, and set some of his words to music. ==Life== He was born in Upper Tooting, south London (not Knightsbridge, as sometimes stated). Education was at the Slade and the Heatherley Art School.〔(Clifford Bax collection, 1924-1926 )〕 He gave up painting to concentrate on writing. Independent wealth gave Bax time to write, and social connections. He had an apartment in Albany, the apartment complex in Piccadilly, London. He was a friend of Gustav Holst, whom he introduced to astrology,〔(Gustav Holst (1874–1934) | The Planets )〕 the critic James Agate, and Arthur Ransome, among others. He met and played chess with Aleister Crowley in 1904, and kept up an acquaintance with him over the years, later in the 1930s introducing both the artist Frieda Harris and the writer John Symonds to him.〔(Biography of Frieda Harris, artist for the Thoth Tarot )〕 An early venture (1908–1914) was ''Orpheus'', a theosophical magazine he edited. His interest in the esoteric extended to editing works of Jakob Boehme, and helping Allan Bennett, the Buddhist. His first play on the commercial stage was ''The Poetasters of Ispahan'' (1912), and he became a fixture of British drama for a generation. He was involved in the ''Phoenix Society'' (1919–1926), concerned with reviving older plays, and the ''Incorporated Stage Society''. He also edited, with Austin Osman Spare, ''Golden Hind'', an artistic and literary magazine that appeared from October 1922 to July 1924. A cricket enthusiast, he was a friend of C. B. Fry〔(Authors OnLine - C.B. Fry - An English Hero by Iain Wilton )〕 and wrote a biography of W.G. Grace. 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「Clifford Bax」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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