FraserNIGHT THOUGHTS LIFE OF DAVID GASCOYNE C
Robert Fraser is the author of books on Marcel Proust and Sir James Frazer, and of a widely reviewed biography of the poet George Barker. He has also written plays on the lives of Dr Johnson, Lord Byron, Carlo Gesualdo, Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has lectured in the universities of Leeds and London, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. Currently Professor of English in the Open University, he is a co-author of the forthcoming History of the Oxford University Press.
List of Plates
Twilight: Two Deaths
Night One: 1916-1939
1: Among Women
2: The Earl of Salisbury's Pavanne
3: 'Rolling and Unrolling'
4: Voiles
5: Et in Arcadia
6: Out of Bounds
7: The Tears of Heraclitus
8: This Meat
9: The Queen of Unrest
10: EngagÃ(c)
11: Journal of a Disappointed Man
12: The Leap of Faith
Night Two: 1939-1964
13: Clamavi
14: Paul Gravey
15: 'Multiplicity is My Daemonia'
16: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Sneeze
17: Exit Pursued by Poles
18: Ayer Absconditus
19: A Bridge Too Soon
20: Humpty Dumpty and the Cuckoo
21: Megalometropolitan
22: A Surrealist Cookbook
23: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
24: An Incident at the ElysÃ(c)e
Night Three: 1964-2001
25: Post-Apocalyptic
26: Enter Zukk
27: An Incident at Buckingham Palace
28: Not Necessarily Silly
29: Under the Clock
30: Dog Eats Sun
31: A La Terrace
32: A Mouth Urgently Speaking
33: 'Words, Words, Words'
34: 'Diverlike below'
35: 'Truth is what it is'
36: 'And now in age I bloom again'
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