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Thomas Forbes (30 November 1900 – 31 January 1988) was an English poet and painter. He is considered part of the Post-Aesthetic Movement. == Birth and Early life == Born in Paris, he was the eldest of three to Robert Forbes and Amelie Racine. His parents had previously lived in Paris selling paintings and working as ''plongeurs'' (kitchen and dishwasher assistants) before returning to raise their son in London. He spent his early years at 15 Grosvenor Gardens, where his father befriended the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne who occasionally looked after Thomas as a toddler,reading him poetry and ballads before he slept. The Family later moved to 7 Bellevue Road, North London where he grew up. He attended Northside Primary School in Barnet, where his first poems have been recorded to have been written from the age of five. It is believed that Swinburne's ballads had induced Thomas to write. It was his father, however, who influenced him to paint. It is understood that Thomas would enter his father's studio at their home without permission and alter his paintings.His father would hear him and enter the room and send him back to bed. They spent a lot of time together in the studio and occasionally collaborated on several paintings. It wasn't until the age of seventeen that Thomas Forbes became serious about painting and writing Poetry. He met the poet Stevie Smith through his younger brother and the two became quite close, writing together in until Thomas went to the University of Liverpool to study English literature. At university he met and fell in love with fellow student and poet Emily Roe-Darley. The poem "My English Rose" (1921) is about her. In his second year he left the course and returned to London with Emily after becoming anxious and homesick. The two married and lived together in Highgate, London to concentrate on writing and painting. His bouts of anxiety and depression during his time at university are highlighted in the early writings of ''Dear Poetic Conscience''. 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「Thomas Forbes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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