Logan Pearsall Smith

Logan Pearsall Smith (18 October 1865 – 2 March 1946) was an American-born British essayist and critic.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

[3] In his 1938 autobiography, Smith describes how in his youth he came to be a friend of Walt Whitman in the poet's latter years.

"[10] As well as his employees listed, his followers included Desmond MacCarthy, John Russell, R. C. Trevelyan, and Hugh Trevor-Roper.

[11] He settled in England after Oxford with occasional forays to continental Europe and became a British subject in 1913.

He divided his time between Chelsea, where he was a close friend of Desmond MacCarthy and Rose Macaulay,[6] and a Tudor farmhouse at Warsash near the Solent, called Big Chilling.

[12] Kenneth Clark further wrote "His tall frame, hunched up, with head thrust forward like a bird, was balanced unsteadily on vestigial legs".