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New Collected Poems
David Gascoyne
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When David Gascoyne celebrated his seventeenth birthday in Paris in 1933, he already had a poetry collection and a novel to his name. He spent much of the next few years in the French capital associating with Eluard, Dali, Ernst, Breton, Peret and other surrealists. By the age of 20 he had firmly established himself within the movement with the publication of his groundbreaking A Short Survey of Surrealism and the poems of Man's Life Is This Meat. In 1938 Holderlin's Madness marked his move away from surrealism in 'a renewal of vision', followed by his milestone collection, Poems 1937-1942 ... Read more
When David Gascoyne celebrated his seventeenth birthday in Paris in 1933, he already had a poetry collection and a novel to his name. He spent much of the next few years in the French capital associating with Eluard, Dali, Ernst, Breton, Peret and other surrealists. By the age of 20 he had firmly established himself within the movement with the publication of his groundbreaking A Short Survey of Surrealism and the poems of Man's Life Is This Meat. In 1938 Holderlin's Madness marked his move away from surrealism in 'a renewal of vision', followed by his milestone collection, Poems 1937-1942 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
462
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907587375
SKU
V9781907587375
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About David Gascoyne
'... Grant us extraordinary grace, O Spirit hidden in the dark in us and deep, And bring to light the dream out of our sleep.' from 'Kyrie' (Selected Poems). David Gascoyne's death in November 2001 was marked by the lead obituaries in all the British broadsheets as well as in Le Monde. As a poet and translator he had been ... Read more
Reviews for New Collected Poems
'A monument to his considerable achievement.' Poetry Book Society
-'It is time for Gascoyne to be claimed and read as an English poet ... the current undervaluation of Gascoyne's work amounts to a dereliction of duty.' TLS leader
'Self-taught, restlessly inventive and extravagantly gifted ... Gascoyne's milestone collection, Poems 1937-42, established him for some readers as the poet of ... Read more
-'It is time for Gascoyne to be claimed and read as an English poet ... the current undervaluation of Gascoyne's work amounts to a dereliction of duty.' TLS leader
'Self-taught, restlessly inventive and extravagantly gifted ... Gascoyne's milestone collection, Poems 1937-42, established him for some readers as the poet of ... Read more