Brian Howard

1905–1958 · English poet and New Statesman writer

Brian Christian de Claiborne Howard (13 March 1905 – 15 January 1958) was an English poet who later wrote for the New Statesman. Educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1923, he was prominent among the Oxford Wits and the Hypocrites’ Club, published verse that Edith Sitwell admired and promoted in the late 1920s, and was a key figure among London’s “Bright Young Things.” Evelyn Waugh drew on him for the aesthete who recurs in his novels.

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“A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure”

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