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“My essential autobiography is told in my verse.”

Suggesting that the poet's life finds its truest expression in his work rather than external narrative · Letter to Walter de la Mare, 1934

About Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

2 June 1878–26 May 1962

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson was born in Hexham, Northumberland, on 2 June 1878, and died on 26 May 1962. During a long career that began in the shadow of late Victorian romanticism and continued through two world wars, he became one of the most distinctive English poets of the early twentieth century. He has often been…

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