NICHOLS, Robert (Malise Bowyer)
- NICHOLS, Robert (Malise Bowyer)
(1893-1944)
UK poet and playwright whose lyrical talent did not survive the end of WWI; he wrote plays and verse epics thereafter. The Smile of the Sphinx (1920 chap), a fantasy, was later revised and assembled in Romances of Idea, Volume One: Fantastica: Being the Smile of the Sphinxand Other Tales of Imagination (coll 1923). The largest item in that volume is the book-length "Golgotha \& Co", set some time after a second world war and assaulting capitalist dreams of the Earthly paradise; the Wandering Jew (who is also a defiant Antichrist) appears and the Messiahis recrucified (off-stage). No second volume of the "Romances" appeared. Wings Over Europe: A Dramatic Extravaganza on a Pressing Theme (1929 US)with Maurice Browne (1881-1955), a play, features the son of a UK prime minister who gains the secret of atomic energy but is killed in an accident before he can do the harm he intends.
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Other work: Under the Yew (1928 chap), a marginal fantasy.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia.
Academic.
2011.
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