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Max Plowman〔Real name Mark Plowman: ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.''〕 (1 September 1883 – 3 June 1941) was a British writer and pacifist. ==Life to 1918== He was born in Northumberland Park, Tottenham, in London.〔(AIM25: University College London: Plowman Papers )〕 He left school at 16, and worked for a decade in his father's brick business.〔Gai Eaton, ''The Richest Vein: Eastern Tradition And Modern Thought'' (2005), p. 128.〕 He became a journalist and poet. In 1914 he married Dorothy Lloyd Sulman.〔 From the beginning of the First World War Plowman felt morally opposed to the fighting – "insane and unmitigated filth" – but on Christmas Eve 1914 he reluctantly volunteered for enlistment in the Territorial Army 4th Field Ambulance. He later accepted a commission in an infantry regiment, and serving at Albert, close to the Somme on the Western Front, he suffered concussion from an exploding shell. Deemed to be affected by shell shock, he was sent home to convalesce at Bowhill Auxiliary, a branch of Craiglockhart, where he was treated by W. H. R. Rivers, although he did not meet either of Rivers' two most celebrated patients, Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. While recovering, he produced a poetry collection, ''A Lap Full of Seed'', and an anonymous pamphlet, ''The Right to Live'', inveighing against the kind of society that made war inevitable.〔Jonathan Atkin, ''A War of Individuals: Bloomsbury Attitudes to the Great War'' (2002), p. 108.〕 Having been granted a further month's home service in January 1918, he wrote to his battalion adjutant asking to be relieved of his commission on the grounds of religious conscientious objection to all war. He was arrested and tried by court martial for refusing to return to his unit; his trial was covered in the ''Labour Leader'' in April 1918. Having been dismissed from the Army, fortunately without punishment, he was served with notice of call-up as a conscript, but successfully applied to a Tribunal for exemption as a conscientious objector. In July 1918 Plowman gave a positive review in the ''Labour Leader'' to Siegfried Sassoon's anti-war poetry collection ''Counter-Attack''.〔Jean Moorcroft Wilson, ''Siegfried Sassoon 1886–1918'' (1998), p. 467.〕 It was in response to a request in a letter from Plowman that Sassoon campaigned for Philip Snowden in Blackburn, in the December 1918 General Election.〔Jean Moorcroft Wilson, ''Siegfried Sassoon 1918–1967'' (2003), p. 30.〕 His memoir of the war ''A Subaltern on the Somme'' was published in 1928, under the pseudonym "Mark VII". 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「Max Plowman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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