List of Illustrations Author's Note Map 1. 'My WIld Little Pick-a-Back Days in Bristol' 2. Lost in Translation: an East End Education 3. 'The Days of Youth Go By': Apprenticeship 4. 'Art Is Not a Plaything': Bold Court and Birkbeck College 5. The Whitechapel Group 6. 'Lady, You Are My God': Romance, Frustration, and Fulfilment 7. An Introduction to the Slade 8.

Serving Two Masters 9. 'His Divided Self': John Rodker, Sonia Cohen and the 'Slot Meter' 10. 'It is All Café Royal Poetry Now': Meeting Edward Marsh 11. South Africa: 'I Have Lived in the Underworld Too Long" 12. 'If You Are Fire': Marda Vanne and Poetry 13. 'On Receiving News of the War' 14. 'No More Free Will Than a Tree': From Cape Town to Enlistment 15. 'Yea I a Soldier': 'This Rat Trap Affair' 16.

Moses : a Farewell to England 17. In the Trenches 18. 'The Desolate Land of France' 19. 'Returning, We Hear the Larks' and 'Dead Man's Dump' 20. 'Daughters of War' and a Last Leave-Taking 21. 'When Will We Go On With the Things That Endure?' 22. 'Through These Pale Cold Days' Abbreviations Notes Bibliography A Checklist of Paintings and Drawings by Isaac Rosenberg Family Tree Acknowledgments Index.