Douglas, Keith Castellain
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▪ British poet
born , Jan. 20, 1920, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Eng.
died June 9, 1944, Normandy, Fr.
British poet who is remembered for his irony, eloquence, and fine control in expressing the misery and waste of war, to which he was to fall victim.
Douglas' education at Oxford University was cut short by the outbreak of war. By 1941 he was serving as a tank commander in North Africa, where some of his most powerful poems were written (Alamein to Zem-Zem, 1946). He was moved back to Britain in 1944 to take part in the D-Day invasion; he fell in combat in Normandy on his third day there. His posthumous Collected Poems (1951) enhanced his reputation as a war poet, but in 1964 Ted Hughes's edition of Douglas' Selected Poems established him as a poet of universal significance.
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