David Gascoyne
Who is David Gascoyne
David Gascoyne (10 October 1916 – 25 November 2001) was an English poet associated with the Surrealist movement, in particular the British Surrealist Group. Additionally he translated work by French surrealist poets.
Early life and surrealism
Gascoyne was born in Harrow the eldest of three sons of Leslie Noel Gascoyne (1886–1969), a bank clerk, and his wife, Winifred Isobel, née Emery (1890–1972). His mother, a niece of the actors Cyril Maude and Winifred Emery, was one of two young women present when the dramatist W. S. Gilbert died in his lake at Grim's Dyke in May 1911. Gascoyne grew up in England and Scotland, attending Salisbury Cathedral School and London's Regent Street Polytechnic. He spent some of the early 1930s in Paris.
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David Gascoyne Poems
- The End Is Near The Beginning
Yes you have said enough for the time being
There will be plenty of lace later on
Plenty of electric wool
And you will forget the eglantine
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- The Very Image - To Rene Magritte
An image of my grandmother
her head appearing upside-down upon a cloud
the cloud transfixed on the steeple
of a deserted railway-station
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- Orpheus In The Underworld
Curtains of rock
And tears of stone,
Wet leaves in a high crevice of the sky:
From side to side the draperies
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- The Cage
In the waking night
The forests have stopped growing
The shells are listening
The shadows in the pools turn grey
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- Snow In Europe
Out of their slumber Europeans spun
Dense dreams: appeasements, miracle, glimpsed flash
Of a new golden era; but could not restrain
The vertical white weight that fell last night
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- Lovechrisandali: alison king, chris gascoyne and david neilson. that is all.
- Michaelscaines: i have rapidly developed an absolute passion for book-collecting; an appetite for new books and for the sheer material acquisition of them, of an intensity greater than i have ever felt, in that connection, before.
– david gascoyne, feb 6 1942
- Sophiologist_: that time i got a christmas card from david gascoyne
- Herrpebblemann: david gascoyne's reading at the royal albert hall 1995
- Beineckelibrary: robert lowell letter to david gascoyne, january 13, 1975 via david gascoyne collection
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