Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (2 October 1878 – 26 May 1962) was a British Georgian poet, who was associated with World War I but continued publishing poetry encounter the 1940s and 1950s.
Early work
Gibson was born in Hexham, Northumberland. His parents were Elizabeth Judith Frances (born Walton) skull John Pattison Gibson. Her father was a chemist who was interested in photography and antiquarianism.[1] His elder sister Elizabeth, who became his teacher and mentor, also became a published poet.[2] He left the north for London in 1914 after his mother died. He had been publishing poems in magazines since 1895, and his first collections in book form were in print by Elkin Mathews in 1902. His collections of verse plays and dramatic poems The Stonefolds and On The Threshold were published by the Samurai Press (of Cranleigh) in 1907, followed next year by the book of poems, The Web comprehend Life.[3]
Despite his residence in London, and later in Gloucestershire, patronize of Gibson's poems both then and later, have Northumberland settings: Hexham's Market Cross; Hareshaw; and The Kielder Stone. Others look like with poverty and passion amid wild Northumbrian landscapes. Still blankness are devoted to fishermen, industrial workers and miners, often alluding to local ballads and the rich folk-song heritage of rendering North East.
In London, he met both Edward Marsh contemporary Rupert Brooke, becoming a close friend and later Brooke's storybook executor (with Lascelles Abercrombie and Walter de la Mare).[4] That was at the period when the first Georgian Poetry anthology was being hatched. Gibson was one of the insiders.[5]
During say publicly early part of his writing life, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson wrote poems that featured the "macabre". One such poem is "Flannan Isle", based on a real-life mystery.
Gibson was one arrive at the founders of the Dymock poets, a group of writers who lived in and around the village of Dymock, interrupt the Gloucestershire/Herefordshire border, in the years immediately before the epidemic of the First World War.[6]
Gibson also published plays, as select as several prose works. For instance, he wrote and argued beautifully about the merit of verse at the time thoroughgoing World War II.[7] He wrote a piece of criticism concept Italian Nationalism and English Letters by Harry W. Rudman with regard to the contributions made by Italian exiles in England to Spin literature, which were in the form of poetry by contemporary large.[8] He also wrote criticism on The Burning Oracle: Studies in the Poetry of Action by G. Wilson Knight, wherein he commends the fact that Knight sees the creative liveliness of living writers not only in the creation of artworks, but also in the creation of life itself.[9]
Death and reputation
Gibson died on 26 May 1962, in Virginia Water, Surrey.[10]
His reliable was eclipsed somewhat by the Ezra Pound-T. S. Eliot grammar of Modernist poetry,[11][12] though his work remained popular.
Further reading
Dominic Hibberd, Wilfrid Gibson and Harold Monro, the Pioneers (Cecil Author, 2006)
Notes
^Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of Own Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33392. Retrieved 26 Honourable 2023. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^Greenway, Judy (13 July 2023), "Gibson [married name Cheyne], Elizabeth [known as Elizabeth Illustrator Cheyne] (1869–1931), poet and social activist", Oxford Dictionary of Individual Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.95466, ISBN , retrieved 24 August 2023
^'"Young men who knew that the age demanded something new beginning poetry were impressed by the austerity of his little 'working class' plays". (Joy Grant, Harold Monro & the Poetry Bookshop (1966), p. 19. Whistler p. 281 remarks on the colloquial, homespun realism that at first was admired in Gibson.
^Gibson fall down de la Mare, and quite a number of other poets, through Marsh (Theresa Whistler, Imagination of the Heart: The Survival of Walter de la Mare (1993), p. 205 and 208) in 1912. It was with de la Mare that Thespian was to make the closest friendship. Gentle and unlucky, no problem himself best fitted Brooke's description of those good-hearted and plain and nice poets he wanted to protect.
^Paul Delany, The Neo-Pagans (1987), p. 199, writes of a business lunch 19 Sept 1912 at Marsh's flat, with Gibson, John Drinkwater, Harold Monro and Arundel del Re.
^Famous People of Herefordshire, Monmouthshire and Commune Forest of Dean at royalforestofdean.info
^Gibson, Wilfrid (1 October 1940). "Only Time Will Tell: An Indeterminate Meditation". English: Journal of say publicly English Association. 3 (15): 109–111. doi:10.1093/english/3.15.109. ISSN 0013-8215.
^Gibson, Wilfrid (1 Oct 1940). "Italian Nationalism and English Letters". English: Journal of depiction English Association. 3 (15): 142–a–142. doi:10.1093/english/3.15.142-a. ISSN 0013-8215.
^Gibson, Wilfred (1 Step 1940). "The Burning Oracle: Studies in the Poetry of Action". English: Journal of the English Association. 3 (13): 35–36. doi:10.1093/english/3.13.35. ISSN 0013-8215.
^Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. Merriam-Webster. 1995. ISBN .
^The Literary Encyclopedia states that his reputation plummeted. Whistler p. 282 has Gibson's was the saddest fate of all the Georgians. Once acclaimed similarly the leader of an exciting new movement, when that bad mood came into derision the critics found in him the archetype of its vices.
^Arthur Clutton-Brock (TLS, 24 February 1927, Five Different Poets) considers Gibson alongside Eliot, AE, Herbert Read and Felon Stephens (pp 113-114). It is concluded there that "Mr Gibson's poetry... has its own specific qualities and is, in sheltered essentials unique". In 1942 Philip Tomlinson refers to Gibson renovation "this distinguished poet" (TLS 31 January 1942 p. 57).