Gascoyne, David

Gascoyne, David

▪ British poet
in full  David Emery Gascoyne  
born October 10, 1916, Harrow, Middlesex, England
died November 25, 2001, Newport, Isle of Wight

      English poet deeply influenced by the French Surrealist movement of the 1930s.

      Gascoyne's first book of poems, Roman Balcony, appeared in 1932 when he was only 16, and his only novel, Opening Day, appeared the next year. The royalty advance for Opening Day enabled him to visit Paris, which encouraged a passionate interest in Surrealism. His important introductory work, A Short Survey of Surrealism (1935), and his verses Man's Life Is This Meat (1936) were milestones of the movement in England. Poems, 1937–42 (1943) marked the beginning of his religious verse and contains some of his finest poems, among them his noted good-bye to the 1930s—“Farewell Chorus.” Night Thoughts, a long, semidramatic poem, was broadcast in 1955 and published the next year.

      Gascoyne's early poetry bears the Surrealist impress boldly, and, through his translations of works by Salvador Dalí and André Breton and his critical writings, he did much to make the movement known in Britain. Gascoyne's Collected Poems 1988 (1988) is a revised and enlarged version, with autobiographical introduction, of a volume first published in 1965. His Collected Verse Translations, chiefly from the French, was released in 1970. Paris Journal, 1937–1939 (1978) and Journal 1936–37 (1980), jointly published as Collected Journals, 1936–42 in 1991, record the political and artistic movements of the late 1930s.

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