Gibson, Wilfred Wilson

Gibson, Wilfred Wilson

▪ British poet
born Oct. 2, 1878, Hexham, Northumberland, Eng.
died May 26, 1962, Virginia Water, Surrey

      British poet who drew his inspiration from the workaday life of ordinary provincial English families.

      Gibson was educated privately, served briefly in World War I, and thereafter devoted his life to poetry. A period in London in 1912 brought him into contact with Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, John Drinkwater, and other Georgian poets, with whom he founded the short-lived poetry magazine New Numbers. In 1917 he made a long lecture tour of the United States. His first poem had appeared in The Spectator in 1897, but it was with his realistic presentation of the lives of country folk in Stonefolds and On the Threshold (both 1907) that he first exploited the themes of contemporary life which distinguished his major works. These included Daily Bread (a series of 18 short verse plays, 1910), the narrative poem Fires (1912), Borderlands (1914), Livelihood (1917), Krindlesyke (1922), Kestrel Edge (1924), Coming and Going (1938), and The Outpost (1944). His last work, Within Four Walls, five short plays about border-country families, appeared in 1950.

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