Sidney Keyes

Sidney Arthur Kilworth Keyes ( born May 27, 1922 in Dartford, Kent, † April 29, 1943 in Tunisia) was a British poet, in 1943 posthumously awarded the Hawthornden Prize was awarded.

Life

Keyes first attended the Tonbridge School and proved already written by his grandfather in 1938 and dedicated elegy poetic talent. After leaving school at he began in 1940 with a scholarship to study history at Queen's College, University of Oxford, and was there the poetry book Cherwell and together with Michael Meyer, the poetry collection Eight Oxford Poets (1941 ) out to which he next Keith Douglas and John Heath- Stubbs also most of the poems, such as "Remember Your Lovers" helped. His first collection of poems, The Iron Laurel was published in 1942. Shortly thereafter, he began his military service with the British Army and came at a patrol as a lieutenant during the African campaign in Tunisia killed.

In 1943, he was posthumously for The Iron Laurel and published after his death, a collection of poems The Cruel Solstice (1943 ) was awarded the Hawthornden Prize.

Its almost wicking interest in myths and legends reflected in many of his poems resist, which influenced him also poets such as William Butler Yeats, William Wordsworth, Rainer Maria Rilke, John Clare, Thomas Hardy, Alfred Edward Housman and Edward Thomas and inspired. In the longer poems " The Foreign Gate", a written February-March 1942 poem of 400 lines, and " The Wilderness " he aspired to a seal, which included a comprehensive metaphysical philosophy. Keeps His best work, though less ambitious, his mythic intuitions in equilibrium with keenly observed drawings of English landscapes.

In 1945 appeared Collected Poems, a collection of his poems, with a preface of his Studienfreudnes Michael Meyer, the early works of Keyes in 1948 under the title Minos of Crete: Plays and Stories published.

Background literature

  • Maria can: poetry as a reflection on poetry: lyric interpretations for Sidney Keyes ', PhD thesis, University of Hamburg, 1964
  • Peter Höschele: The Poetry of Sidney Keyes: Critical Edition and Commentary, PhD thesis, University of Tübingen, 1968
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