A new preface and introduction open this volume, initially printed in England in 1935 for an audience contemporary with the surreal works of literature discussed, but somewhat geographically and aesthetically removed. As such, the volume familiarizes readers with the precursors, important figures, and key publications of the movement, as assessed ...
In 1937 the twenty-year-old David Gascoyne, later to be one of the most significant English writers of the twentieth century, found in Paris a copy of "Poemes de la folie de Holderlin" by the eminent French poet and novelist Pierre Jean Jouve (1887-1976). The following year he was introduced to Jouve, whose influence would be crucial to the ...
This volume incorporates the main body of Gascoyne's work, with poems to represent every period of his extensive career. It includes an introduction, in which Gascoyne describes the years he spent in France, a young poet in the vanguard of the surrealist movement.
This is a rich harvest from a renowned translator, an elegant survivor. In 1996, in his eightieth year, David Gascoyne was awarded the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in recognition of his profound contribution to French literature and art. This collection includes some of his best work - early translations, recent unpublished ...
The Collected Journals 1936-42 cover the years when the young David Gascoyne lived in Paris. Lawrence Durrell, George Barker and Henry Miller were early friends and he was actively involved in the surrealist movement with Andre Breton and the poet Paul Eluard. The journals give a full account of these years: his personal struggle and despair as ...
This collection brings together all the poems David Gascoyne wishes to preserve in a single volume. It contains many poems previously uncollected and taken together, the poems show David Gascoyne to be one of the key figures of the history of surrealism and the literature of the 20th century. The poet has contributed an introduction to this ...
David Gascoyne's "Paris Journal 1937/9" was acclaimed by the critics when we published it in 1978; by a remarkable coincidence an earlier long-lost journal has also come to light for the period immediately preceding the former one. For this new journal the author has written a long introduction describing among much else his involvement with Mass ...
This is a major collection of more than seventy essays, critical pieces, biographical sketches, and memoirs by the renowned poet, translator, and essayist. It includes long-inaccessible contributions to journals and magazines together with previously unpublished material. Included are essays on Carlyle, Parchen, and Novalis, memoirs on Dali and ...
"winter ceremony, " a commissioned work, opens the first collection by Maggie O'Sullivan since In The House Of The Shaman; the selection from David Gascoyne's array of lifework was recently retrieved from notebooks dating 1936-37, and is published here for the first time; Barry MacSweeney, at the age of seventeen championed as a lyric boy-wonder ...
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