Dunstan Thompson
Subtitle: a memoir
Publisher: Philip Trower
Published: 2008
Place of publication: location not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: American Poets; Biography; Catholics; Gay men
Description: Unpublished memoir about poet Dunstan Thompson (1914-1975). Memoir includes anecdotes about postwar literary life in Britain and such literary figures as George Barker, T. S. Eliot, Herbert Read, Edith Sitwell, and Stephen Spender.
Notes: "For Joel Thompson, son of the poet's first cousin."--Title page.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: His father's family --; title: His mother's family --; title: Uncle White and Aunt Leita --; title: The man in the child and the child in the man --; title: Birth and early years --; title: Trips abroad, 1925-1930 --; title: High school years --; title: His loss of faith --; title: Harvard--1936-1939 --; title: Vacations, 1937-1939 --; title: Poets and poetry --; title: New York 1939-1942 --; title: War years 1942-1945 --; title: New York, Egypt and the Middle East, and London again --; title: North Norfolk --; title: The rocket house and the lodge --; title: Return to Catholic practice --; title: Walsingham --; title: Friends and neighbours --; title: The sixties and seventies --; title: Last years --; title: Appendix (From letter to George Rock, 13th June, 1953 on how he came to return to the Church).