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A surrealist at the Elysee : BOOKS : POETRY
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THE poet David Gascoyne, svelte and slightly stooped at the age
of 78, has been virtually silent for the last 40 years. He started
writing young, publishing his first collection at 16; his mother
warned him that he would "only regret it later". He was immediately
compared to Rimbaud, whose Illuminations he had translated word by
word, at 14, with a dictionary, and this baleful influence was to
lead him eventually towards the Surrealists. Today he remains
apart from the English tradition, and finds himself, like Edgar
Allan Poe, more appreciated by the French than by his own
countrymen.
His ...
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Obituary: David Gascoyne
; WHEN A poet as pure as David Gascoyne dies, the main fact about him...from Heidegger's philosophy. David Gascoyne, to be sure, was no great humorist...no exaggeration to say that David Gascoyne's life was a long search for...
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Obituary: Isobel English
; ...Bainbridge, Alice Thomas Ellis, Olivia Manning, Edward Upward, David Gascoyne, Kay Dick - cherished her as a friend. But she shrank from...You've spoken for almost an hour about what a wonderful poet David Gascoyne is. But you've told me nothing about yourself!" That was...
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5 JUNE 1938
; Days like these DAVID GASCOYNE, the Surrealist poet, writes in his diary: "Saw today in an English newspaper a notice of somebody's journal, recently published...
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Obituary: Professor Robin Skelton
; ...poets, the attention to the Thirties poets, the work of David Gascoyne and Dylan Thomas notwithstanding, shows him to be not a...and he is the editor of the work of the important poet David Gascoyne (Collected Poems, 1965 and Collected Verse Translations...
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obituaries: Gavin Ewart
; Gavin Ewart and I were a simultaneously precocious pair, writes David Gascoyne {further to the obituary by Anthony Thwaite, 24 October}. We were born in the same year in the middle of the First World War. We...
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(book reviews)
; Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Philippe Soupault. The Automatic Message. Trans. David Gascoyne, Antony Melville, Jon Graham. Introduction by Gascoyne and Melville. Atlas, 1997. 223 pp. Paper: $16.99. An old maxim has God worrying...
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Obituary: Brian Merrikin Hill
; ...Platform. Although not inclined to seek fame, he was regarded as a compeer by poets as distinguished as Kathleen Raine and David Gascoyne. The Blakean title of his 1984 book Wakeful in the Sleep of Time gives some indication of how seriously he viewed the poet...
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Birthdays
; ...Deputy General Secretary, Royal College of Midwives, 49; Mr Ted Edgar, show jumper, 60; Miss Fiona Fullerton, actress, 39; Mr David Gascoyne, poet, 79; The Right Rev Alastair Haggart, former Bishop of Edinburgh, 80; Sir Peter Kemp, former civil servant, 61; Lord...
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BOOKS: EVENTS
; ...pounds 8. 0171 467 1619. Etruscan Books presents a two-day lit fest at at Diorama Studio Theatre, Osnaburgh St, NW1. Includes David Gascoyne (Sat 14, 2.30pm); Aaron Williamson (Sat 14, 7.30pm); Iain Sinclair (Mon 15, 7.30pm). All events pounds 5/pounds 4. 01364...
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The Arts: Still looking for a new England He was the most important photographer of the British documentary movement of the 1930s. And amazingly Humphrey Spender, brother of the poet Stephen, is still working at the age of 90.
; ...thriving in Paris, albeit having renounced his faithful Leica for the paint- brush and pen; or when I found out that the poet David Gascoyne, a bright star of the earliest days of British surrealism, was comfortably settled on the Isle of Wight and even, it seems...
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