Hugh Sykes Davies
Hugh Sykes Davies (born 1909 in Yorkshire , † 1984 ) was a British poet and writer . He belonged to the small group of British surrealists .
life and work
Davies was born in Yorkshire to a Methodist minister and his wife. He attended Kingswood School in Bath and then studied at Cambridge , where he and William Empson edited a student magazine called Experiment . in the 1930s he spent a few years in Paris . He was one of the organizers of the International Surrealist Exhibition in London in 1936 . In 1940 he was a candidate for the Communist Party for election to the House of Commons , but it did not take place because World War II had broken out.
His friends included TS Eliot , IA Richards , Anthony Blunt , Ludwig Wittgenstein and Salvador Dalí .
Davies' poems were published mainly in avant-garde magazines and were not edited collectively during his lifetime. Petron , a surrealist poem in prose, appeared in 1935; his novels include Full Fathom Five (1956) and The Papers of Andrew Melmoth (1960). During the last twenty years of his life he devoted himself to the work of William Wordsworth . So he belonged to the management of the "Wordsworth Trust", the Dove Cottage , the historic house and today's museum at Grasmere in the Lake District , is subordinate. It was the home of Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth from December 1799 to May 1808. Davies' major work Wordsworth and the Worth of Words was published posthumously in 1986.
Davies was a lecturer and fellow at St John's College , Cambridge. His literary estate is kept in the St Johns Librairy.
Publications (selection)
- Hugh Sykes Davies: Wordsworth and the Worth of Words . Cambridge University Press, 4th Edition 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-12914-5 (online)
- Hugh Sykes Davies / George Watson: The English Mind: Studies in the English Moralists. Presented to Basil Willey . First edition 1964. Cambridge University Press 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-13707-2
Web links
- Biography and Works : George Watson: Remembering Prufrock. Hugh Sykes Davies 1909-1984
- St Johns Librairy : Papers of Hugh Sykes Davies
Individual evidence
- ↑ wordsworth.org.uk ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Dove Cottage , accessed December 21, 2010
- ↑ Quoted from Papers of Hugh Sykes Davies
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Davies, Hugh Sykes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yorkshire , UK |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1984 |