THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS
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Gascoyne, David ___ 1916-2001 ___ British
___ poet
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Gascoyne was born at Harrow, north
of London, and educated at Salisbury Cathedral School and Regent Street
Polytechnic, London, where he met George Barker. When only 16, his first
collection of poetry was published. The following year, his novel 'Opening
Day' was also published. Further poetry collections followed, and these
helped establish him as one of most original voices of the 1930s. When still
only 21, he wrote 'A Short Survey of Surrealism' which was published with
a cover by Max Ernst. Subsequently, he was involved in organising the London
International Surrealist Exhibition with Roland Penrose and Herbert Read.
He involved himself in the Spanish Civil War, and lived in France for long
periods. He became increasingly well known, not only as a poet but as a
translator of French surrealist literature, publishing widely in books and
magazines. After the war, Gascoyne again lived in France, and continued
writing and publishing poems, although without the fervour of previous years.
Suffering from depression, he returned to England, and to his parents' house
on the Isle of Wight. The death of his father caused further psychological
difficulties. In 1975, he married Judy Lewis and recovered some of his writing
ability. It was then that he published his journals from the 1930s, which
revealed friendships with many literary names of the period, not least Norman
Cameron, Anäis Nin and Henry Miller.
One
biography link
DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1936-1939 ___ literary art people
self love/sex philosophy
WEB TEXT LINKS
good
extracts
short
quotes
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
British
Library, Manuscript Collections
___ possibly, or still privately held
SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
Journal 1936-1937
Journal 1937-1939
May 2005
THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS:
1) The first line of basic information
may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different
names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or
uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown,
or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British'
a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was
compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts
were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if
they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates
and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with
caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are
only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies.
4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges,
and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising.
I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some
variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited
myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their
original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the
titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries. |