William Henry Davies was a Welsh poet and writer, who spent much of his life as a tramp or hobo in the United Kingdom and the United States, yet became one of the most popular poets of his time. His themes included observations on life's hardships, the ways the human condition is reflected in nature, his tramping adventures and the characters he met. His work has been classed as Georgian, though it is not typical of that class of work in theme or style.
Davies in 1913 (by Alvin Langdon Coburn)
Plaque commemorating Davies' supposed place of birth, at "The Church House Inn", in Pillgwenlly, Newport, Wales.
Davies in 1915
Davies' last home "Glendower", Watledge Road, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire
A tramp is a long-term homeless person who travels from place to place as a vagrant, traditionally walking all year round.
A romanticized tramp depicted in an 1899 U.S. poster
"A Tramp's Nest in Ludlow Street", How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890), by Jacob Riis