ABSTRACT
Thomas Ernest Hulme (1883-1917) attended the University of Cambridge without taking a degree, and it was mainly through private study in Europe and later in London that he trained himself as a philosopher and aesthetician. He was particularly interested in the work of the French philosopher Henri Bergson, and published a translation of the latter's Introduction to Metaphysics in 1913. On the outbreak of World War I, Hulme volunteered for military service. He was killed in France in 1917. From his unpublished papers Herbert Read edited a volume of critical essays entitled Speculations (1924) from which 'Romanticism and Classicism' (probably written in 1913 or 1914) is taken.
