T. E. Hulme

T. E. Hulme, English poet and critic (died 1917)

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Born: September 16, 1883
Died: September 28, 1917
Zodiac sign: Virgo
Birth year: 1883

About T. E. Hulme

Thomas Ernest Hulme was an English critic and poet who, through his writings on art, literature and politics, had a notable influence upon modernism. He was an aesthetic philosopher and the father of imagism. Hulme's poems "Autumn" and "A City Sunset", both published in 1909 in a Poets' Club anthology, have the distinction of being the first Imagist poems. Hulme: The First Conservative of the Twentieth Century Hulme Reconsidered and Reappreciated. Originally starting as a private, Hulme eventually became a lieutenant.

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The world when T. E. Hulme was born

T. E. Hulme was born in 1883. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

Top headlineBrooklyn Bridge opens after 14 years of construction
Technology milestoneFirst standardized time zones adopted
World population~1.43B

United States snapshot

U.S. leaderChester A. Arthur
U.S. population52.8M

1883 versus 2026

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Measure	1883	2026
Population	52.8M	341 million

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