The collection consists of texts of diaries, poems, prose works and correspondence of David Emery Gascoyne, poet, critic and artist, with collections of critical work on him and other collections of poetry, prose and other matter made by him and his wife Lorna Judith Tyler, afterwards Lewis, afterwards Gascoyne (hereafter referred to as Judy Gascoyne).
David Gascoyne papers
This material is held atBritish Library Manuscript Collections
- Reference
- GB 58 Add MS 89011
- Alternative Id.(ark) ark:/81055/vdc_100000000094.0x0000ce
- Dates of Creation
- 1822-2010, n.d.
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 11 series (138 files)
Scope and Content
Arrangement
British Library arrangement, based on the arrangement of the files as received by the British Library.
Access Information
Unrestricted
Acquisition Information
Purchased from Stephen Stuart-Smith, executor of David and of Judy Gascoyne, 2010.
Other Finding Aids
Background to the papers may be found in Robert Fraser, Night Thoughts: the surreal life of the poet David Gascoyne (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012) and in Colin T. Benford, David Gascoyne: a bibliography of his works (1929-1985) (Ryde: Heritage Books, 1986).
Bibliography
Many of the works in the collection are published in Gascoyne's Collected Poems (London: Oxford University Press, 1956); Collected Poems 1988 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988); Selected Poems (London: Enitharmon Press, 1994); Collected Verse Translations, edited by Alan Clodd and Robin Skelton (London: Oxford University Press, 1970); Selected Verse Translations, edited by Alan Clodd and Robin Skelton (London: Enitharmon Press, 1996); Selected Prose, 1934-1996, edited by Roger Scott (London: Enitharmon Press, 1998). These are referred to hereafter by their titles alone. Reference to the publication of works in books or periodicals is made in the descriptions of those works.