2 Quotes & Sayings By G Allen Mercer

G. Allen Mercer was an English poet and writer who worked in the 1930s and 1940s as literary editor for the Southern Review. He published his first book of poems, The Dark Garden, in 1936. His work has been described as exhibiting "a peculiar quality of bizarre, almost grotesque beauty." He also wrote two novels: The Silver Bell (1950) and A Lion Tamer (1957).