Clifford Dyment
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Clifford Henry Dyment (1914 – 1971) was a British poet, literary critic and editor, and journalist, best known for his poems on countryside topics.
He spent his early childhood in Caerleon-on-Usk but was educated at Loughborough Grammar School in Leicestershire.[1] His father was killed in World War I.[2] His first published collection was First Day (1935). During the latter part of the 1930s he was a literary figure in London. During World War II he was engaged to make films, working for the British government.
[edit] Works
- First Day (1935)
- Straight or Curly (1937)
- The Axe in the Wood (1944)
- Thomas Hood, Selected Poems (1948, Grey Walls Press) editor
- Poems 1935-1948 (1949)
- Experiences and Places (1955)
- The Railway Game : An Early Autobiography (1962)
- C. Day Lewis (1963 biography
- Collected Poems (1970)
[edit] References
- ^ Extract from autobiography
- ^ The Legends and Traditions of the Great War: Poetry at War by James S. Robbins
