This pioneering biography of the British poet and translator David Gascoyne (1916-2001) candidly describes his creative work, involvement with surrealism, addictions, tormented private life, and his many friendships in England and France.
This pioneering biography of the British poet and translator David Gascoyne (1916-2001) candidly describes his creative work, involvement with surrealism, addictions, tormented private life, and his many friendships in England and France.
Robert Fraser is the author of books on Marcel Proust and Sir James Frazer, and of a widely reviewed biography of the poet George Barker. He has also written plays on the lives of Dr Johnson, Lord Byron, Carlo Gesualdo, Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has lectured in the universities of Leeds and London, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. Currently Professor of English in the Open University, he is a co-author of the forthcoming History of the Oxford University Press.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Plates Twilight: Two Deaths Night One: 1916-1939 1: Among Women 2: The Earl of Salisbury's Pavanne 3: 'Rolling and Unrolling' 4: Voiles 5: Et in Arcadia 6: Out of Bounds 7: The Tears of Heraclitus 8: This Meat 9: The Queen of Unrest 10: Engagé 11: Journal of a Disappointed Man 12: The Leap of Faith Night Two: 1939-1964 13: Clamavi 14: Paul Gravey 15: 'Multiplicity is My Daemonia' 16: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Sneeze 17: Exit Pursued by Poles 18: Ayer Absconditus 19: A Bridge Too Soon 20: Humpty Dumpty and the Cuckoo 21: Megalometropolitan 22: A Surrealist Cookbook 23: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral 24: An Incident at the Elysée Night Three: 1964-2001 25: Post-Apocalyptic 26: Enter Zukk 27: An Incident at Buckingham Palace 28: Not Necessarily Silly 29: Under the Clock 30: Dog Eats Sun 31: A La Terrace 32: A Mouth Urgently Speaking 33: 'Words, Words, Words' 34: 'Diverlike below' 35: 'Truth is what it is' 36: 'And now in age I bloom again' Acknowledgements Sources and Abbreviations
List of Plates Twilight: Two Deaths Night One: 1916-1939 1: Among Women 2: The Earl of Salisbury's Pavanne 3: 'Rolling and Unrolling' 4: Voiles 5: Et in Arcadia 6: Out of Bounds 7: The Tears of Heraclitus 8: This Meat 9: The Queen of Unrest 10: Engagé 11: Journal of a Disappointed Man 12: The Leap of Faith Night Two: 1939-1964 13: Clamavi 14: Paul Gravey 15: 'Multiplicity is My Daemonia' 16: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Sneeze 17: Exit Pursued by Poles 18: Ayer Absconditus 19: A Bridge Too Soon 20: Humpty Dumpty and the Cuckoo 21: Megalometropolitan 22: A Surrealist Cookbook 23: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral 24: An Incident at the Elysée Night Three: 1964-2001 25: Post-Apocalyptic 26: Enter Zukk 27: An Incident at Buckingham Palace 28: Not Necessarily Silly 29: Under the Clock 30: Dog Eats Sun 31: A La Terrace 32: A Mouth Urgently Speaking 33: 'Words, Words, Words' 34: 'Diverlike below' 35: 'Truth is what it is' 36: 'And now in age I bloom again' Acknowledgements Sources and Abbreviations
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