Isaac Rosenberg

Isaac Rosenberg was born in 1890 in Bristol to Jewish parents who had come from Lithuania, and grew up in the East End of London, in great poverty. Apprenticed to an engraver, he studied painting thanks to three women who financed his studies, and regarded himself as a painter as much as a poet. He enlisted in 1915 despite poor health and convictions against the war, chiefly for the allowance paid to his mother, and remained a private until his death. He was killed near Arras on 1 April 1918.

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• PoetryPoemsIsaac Rosenberg · 1922LiteraturePublic domain