Editing Edward Marsh (polymath) (section)

==Literary career==
A classical scholar and translator, Marsh edited five anthologies of ''[[Georgian Poetry]]'' between 1912 and 1922, and he became [[Rupert Brooke]]'s [[literary executor]], editing his ''Collected Poems'' in 1918. Later in life he published verse translations of [[Jean de La Fontaine|La Fontaine]] and [[Horace]], and a translation of [[Eugène Fromentin]]'s novel ''Dominique''.

The sales of the first three ''Georgian Poetry'' anthologies were impressive, ranging between 15,000 and 19,000 copies apiece.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Copp |first1=Michael |year=2013 |title= Siegfried Sassoon, Modernity and Modernism|journal=Siegfried's Journal |volume=23 |issue=Winter |pages=7–12 |publisher=Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship }}</ref> Marsh and the critic [[J. C. Squire]] were the group's most important patrons, and it was in Marsh's London rooms that [[Siegfried Sassoon]] and Rupert Brooke met for the only time, in June 1914.<ref>Siegfried Sassoon, ''The Weald of Youth'' (Faber, 1942)</ref>
In 1931, he won a literary contest with a new stanza for ''[[Paradise Lost]]'', which repairs the omission of how [http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2013/07/adam-and-eve-brush-their-teeth.html "Adam and Eve Brush Their Teeth"]. In 1939, he produced his memoirs, titled ''A Number of People.'' An edited collection of letters, ''Ambrosia and Small Beer,'' appeared in 1964, recording two decades of correspondence with his friend and biographer, [[Christopher Hassall]].<ref>''Ambrosia and Small Beer: the record of a correspondence between Edward Marsh and Christopher Hassall'' (London: Longmans, 1964)</ref>

Marsh advised [[Somerset Maugham]] about his writing between 1935 and 1953 with hundreds of pages of criticism. This is recorded in Ted Morgan's biography of Maugham (1980).

Marsh was also a consistent collector and supporter of the works of the avant-garde artists [[Mark Gertler (artist)|Mark Gertler]], [[Duncan Grant]], [[David Bomberg]] and [[Paul Nash (artist)|Paul Nash]], all of whom were also associated with the [[Bloomsbury Group]].<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Butlin | first1 = M. | title = Edward Marsh, Patron of the Arts: A Biography | journal = The Burlington Magazine | volume = 102 | issue = 686 | pages = 218–219 | year = 1960 }}</ref>

In addition to his work editing Churchill's writing, Marsh introduced Siegfried Sassoon to Churchill as a means of aiding the former's career. He was also a close friend and lover of [[Ivor Novello]].<ref>Chips Channon diary, 6 March 1951</ref>