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Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.

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Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.

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About T.E. Hulme

Thomas Ernest Hulme (; 16 September 1883 – 28 September 1917) was an English critic and poet who, through his writings on art, literature and politics, had a notable influence upon modernism. He was an aesthetic philosopher and the 'father of imagism'.