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David Gascoyne

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English Surrealist poet

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According to Wikipedia, David Gascoyne was an English poet associated with the Surrealist movement, in particular the British Surrealist Group. Additionally he translated work by French surrealist poets. Early life and surrealism Gascoyne was born in Harrow the eldest of three sons of Leslie Noel Gascoyne , a bank clerk, and his wife, Winifred Isobel, née Emery . His mother, a niece of the actors Cyril Maude and Winifred Emery, was one of two young women present when the dramatist W. S. Gilbert died in his lake at Grim's Dyke in May 1911. Gascoyne grew up in England and Scotland, attending Salisbury Cathedral School and London's Regent Street Polytechnic. He spent some of the early 1930s in Paris.

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