Robert
Nichols was born in 1893 on the Isle of Wight in Great
Britain, and educated at Winchester and Oxford. While
still an undergraduate at Trinity College, Oxford, he
enlisted in the army, and served as 2nd Lieutenant in
the Royal Field Artillery, participating in the Battle
of Loos and the Battle of Somme. A friend of Siegfried
Sassoon and Rupert Brooke, Nichols' first volume of poetry,
Invocations, was published while he was at the
Front. Nichols visited the United States as a lecturer
in 1918 to 1919. Nichols' depiction of the war can be
found in his collection of epic poetry entitled Ardours
and Endurances; Also, A Faun's Holiday & Poems & Phantasies,
published in 1917.
Robert
Nichols was born in 1893 on the Isle of Wight in Great
Britain, and educated at Winchester and Oxford. While
still an undergraduate at Trinity College, Oxford, he
enlisted in the army, and served as 2nd Lieutenant in
the Royal Field Artillery, participating in the Battle
of Loos and the Battle of Somme. A friend of Siegfried
Sassoon and Rupert Brooke, Nichols' first volume of poetry,
Invocations, was published while he was at the
Front. Nichols visited the United States as a lecturer
in 1918 to 1919. Nichols' depiction of the war can be
found in his collection of epic poetry entitled Ardours
and Endurances; Also, A Faun's Holiday & Poems & Phantasies,
published in 1917.