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George Allen Upward (Worcester 20 September 1863 – Wimborne 17 November 1926) was a British poet, lawyer, politician and teacher.
His work was included in the first anthology of Imagist poetry, Des Imagistes, which was edited by Ezra Pound and published in 1914. He was a first cousin once removed of Edward Upward. His parents were George and Mary Upward, and he was survived by an elder sister (Mary) Edith Upward.
Early life
Upward was brought up as a member of the Plymouth Brethren and trained as a lawyer at the Royal University of Dublin (now University College Dublin). While living in Dublin, he wrote a pamphlet in favour of Irish Home Rule.
In the 1890s he lived in Cardiff where he worked as a lawyer, journalist and novelist. He also stood several times unsuccessfully as a candidate for both the Liberal and Labour party. He defended Havelock Wilson and other Labour leaders and ran for election as a Lib-Lab candidate, taking 659 votes in Merthyr at the 1895 general election.
Upward later worked for the British Foreign Office in Nigeria as an officer for the British Government.
Literary career
He wrote two books of poetry, Songs in Ziklag (1888) and Scented Leaves from a Chinese Jar. He also published a translation of the Sayings of Confucius (1904) and a volume of autobiography, Some Personalities (1921).
Upward wrote a number of novels: The Prince of Balkistan (1895), A Crown of Straw (1896), A Bride's Madness (1897), The Accused Princess (1900), The International Spy: Being a Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War (1905), and Athelstane Ford. His 1910 novel The Discovery of the Dead is a collected fantasy (listed in Bleiler) dealing with the emerging science of Necrology.
