Hodgson, Ralph (1871–1962)

English poet. His collections of poems include The Last Blackbird 1907; Poems 1917, containing ‘The Bull’ and ‘The Song of Honour’; The Skylark and Other Poems 1958; and Collected Poems 1961. In 1954 he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

For a time Hodgson edited Fry's Magazine, and in 1913, with Holbrook Jackson, he founded the Sign of the Flying Fame for publishing broadsides and chapbooks, including some of his own poems. In 1924 he was appointed professor of English literature at Sendai University, Japan, and from 1937 he lived in the USA.