Author · United Kingdom · 1863–1926
Allen Upward
Sharp essays and verse that flirt with satire, politics, and symbolist experiment.
George Allen Upward 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.
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Word politics and wit in 2026
Allen Upward is minor but revealing. He plays with word politics and the way labels shape belief. Read him for intellectual archaeology and for style that tests how language tilts debate and rumor.
