Wright, David

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Section: Poets in the News
Poet Name: Wright, David
Given Name: David
Last Name: Wright
Date of Birth: 23 February 1920
Biography: David Wright was a South-African born English poet who immigrated to England at age fourteen. He became deaf at age seven from contracting scarlet fever. He edited the literary magazine Nimbus for two years beginning in 1955, and, alongside John Heath-Stubbs, he edited the Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse. He wrote a biography of South African poet Roy Campbell in 1961.

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Education: Oriel College
News Items: Soldier-Poets and Others; P. E. N. Poets' Choice; I remember it well; Poets from Abroad; Power of the Pen in Exile: The Times Profile, Breyten Breytenbach; The Climate of Taste; A New Look in Writing
Works: Poems and Versions; To the Gods the Shades: New and Collected Poems; A view of the north; Adam at Evening; A South African Album; Moral Stories; Selected Poems; Metrical Observations; Selected Poems; Elegies; Monologue of a Deaf Man; The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse: An Anthology of Verse in Britain 1900-1950; Lisbon: Portrait Guide by David Wright and Patrick Swift; Poets in South Africa: An Anthology; Nerve Ends
Close Relationships: Lessing, Doris; Schreiner, Olive; Smit, Hettie; Roberts, Michael; Brink, André Philippus; Connolly, Cyril Vernon 'Cyril Connolly'; Bosman, Herman Charles; Louw, W. E. G.; van den Heever, C. M.; Jacobson, Dan; Millin, Sarah Gertrude; Potts, Paul; Abrahams, Peter; Biko, Bantu Stephen 'Steve'; Woods, Donald James; Fraser, George Sutherland 'G. S.'; Swift, Patrick; Gordimer, Nadine; Heath-Stubbs, John; Smith, Pauline Janet; Schuitema, Barend; Morton, Do; FitzPatrick, James Percy; van Bruggen, Jochem; Breytenbach, Breyten; Eybers, Elisabeth Françoise; Delius, Anthony 'Ronald St. Martin'; van den Heever, Toon; Blum, Peter; Opperman, Diederik Johannes 'D. J.'; Marais, Eugène Nielen; Plomer, William; Watermeyer, Gottfried Andreas 'G. A.'; Butler, Guy; Pringle, Thomas; Pretorius, S. J. 'Sarel Jacob'; Madge, Charles Henry; Currey, Ralph Nixon 'R. N.'; Leipoldt, C. Louis 'Christian Frederik Louis'; Paton, Alan; Vanwyk Louw, Nicholaas Petrus; Campbell, Roy; Rousseau, Ina; Cope, Robert Knox 'Jack'; Philander, P. J. 'Peter John'; Krige, Uys; van Heerden, Ernst; MacNab, Roy; Celliers, Jan; Prince, Frank Templeton 'F. T.'; Slater, Francis Carey 'F. C.'
Place of Birth: South Africa, Johannesburg
Spatial Coverage: Johannesburg
Region: Southern Africa
Type: Poets in the News