was established by Poems (1917). In Japan His first wife Mary Janet (née Chatteris) died in 1920. He then married Muriel Fraser (divorced 1932). Shortly after that he accepted an invitation to teach English at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. In 1933 he married Lydia Aurelia Bolliger, an American missionary and teacher there. While in Japan, Hodgson worked, almost anonymously, as part of the committee that translated the great collection of Japanese classical poetry, the Man'yōshū, into English. The high quality of the published translations is almost certainly the result of his "final revision" of the texts. This was an undertaking worthy of Arthur Waley and could arguably be considered Hodgson's major accomplishment as a poet. Retirement in the United States In 1938 Hodgson left Japan, visited friends in the UK including Siegfried Sassoon (they had met 1919) and then settled permanently with Aurelia in Minerva, Ohio. He was involved there in publishing, under the Flying Scroll imprint, and some academic contacts. He died in Minerva. Later work Arthur Bliss set some of his poems to music. His Collected Poems appeared in 1961, The Skylark (1959) having been his only new book (other than the collaborative work in the Man'yōshū,) in many decades. Quotes "Some things have to be believed to be seen." "The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery." "Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?" "Did anyone ever have a boring dream?" References Ralph Hodgson and Aurelia Bolliger Hodgson Papers in the Bryn Mawr College Library John Harding, Dreaming of Babylon: The Life and Times of Ralph Hodgson (London: Greenwich Exchange, 2008) Mary Janet Chatteris born 1875 died 1920 "Chatteris Family Tree" External links Ralph Hodgson Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. 1871 births 1962 deaths People from Darlington Academic staff of Tohoku University People from Minerva, Ohio English male poets