6/23/2023 0 Comments Viking's Dawn by Henry Treece![]() ![]() It wasn’t until 1952 that Treece finally achieved something more than moderate success with his historical novel The Dark Island that marked the beginning of a remarkably prolific career. His most notable poetic works are The Black Seasons and The Haunted Garden, all published and written during the forties. Treece flirted with poetry in the early part of his writing career, publishing the single poem Conquerors and a collection under the title 38 Poems which came out in 1940, before moving more towards prose fiction later on. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Air Force and rose to the rank of Flight Lieutenant before demobbing and returning to the teaching profession. ![]() He married Mary Woodman in 1939 and settled in Barton-on-Humber for most of the rest of his life. Treece went to Birmingham University and graduated with a BA in 1933 heading straight into teaching, a career he would pursue for the next 25 years. Together with writer J F Henry he was founder of the New Apocalypse Movement that grew up in the 1930s. Though he mostly wrote prose fiction he also published five collections of poems including The Haunted Garden in 1947. One of the most prolific writers of historical fiction in the 20th Century, author and poet Henry Treece was born in 1911 in Staffordshire. ![]()
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