Richard Le Gallienne

Richard Le Gallienne (1866–1947) was an English poet and critic, and one of the representative figures of Aestheticism in literature. His creative and critical work carried forward the late nineteenth-century Aestheticist emphasis on beauty, form and sensibility, while his poetry and essays kept a sensitive eye on the details of everyday life. His representative work Young Lives takes growth as its theme, with a gentle and delicate touch, focusing on the ideals, perplexities and self-formation of young people as they enter society; it is therefore often grouped with inspirational coming-of-age reading. Chinese-language public information about his life and the full range of his work is currently limited, and Chinese readers generally know him through this work and its Aestheticist background. Readers may note how he blends poetic language into narrative and writes about growing up in a lyrical manner.