Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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Wilfrid Wilson Gibson


Born
in Hexam, Northumberland, The United Kingdom
October 02, 1878

Died
May 26, 1962

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Gibson was born in Hexham, Northumberland and left the north for London in 1912 after his father died. He had been publishing poems in magazines since 1897, and the collections Stonefolds, On The Threshold, were published by the Samurai Press in 1907, and followed by The Web of Life in 1908.[1]

Despite his residence in London and later on in Gloucestershire, many of Gibson's poems both then and later, have Northumberland settings: 'Hexham's Market Cross'; 'Hareshaw'; and 'The Kielder Stone'. Others deal with poverty and passion amid wild Northumbrian landscapes. Still others are devoted to fishermen, industrial workers and miners, often alluding to local ballads and the rich folk-song heritage of the North East.

It was in London that he met b
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Flannan Isle

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Fires: The Stone and Other ...

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Collected Poems, 1905-1925

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Livelihood: Dramatic Reveries

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Neighbours

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Hill-tracks

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Battle, and Other Poems

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Daily Bread

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“Aye: though we hunted high and low,
And hunted everywhere,
Of the three men's fate we found no trace
Of any kind in any place,
But a door ajar, and an untouched meal,
And an overtoppled chair.”
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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