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EARLY WORK Gibson was born in Hexham , Northumberland and left the north for London after his father died. He had been publishing poems in magazines since 1897, and later works were published by Harold Monro's Samurai Press in 1907.''Young men who knew that the age demanded something new in poetry were impressed by the austerity of his little 'working class' plays''. (Joy Grant, ''Harold Monro & the Poetry Bookshop'' (1967), p.19. Whistler p.281 remarks on the ''colloquial, homespun realism'' that at first was admired in Gibson. It was in London that he met both '' anthology was being hatched. Gibson was one of the insiders.Paul Delany, ''The Neo-Pagans'' (1987), p.199, writes of a business lunch 19 September 1912 at Marsh's flat, with Gibson, John Drinkwater , Harold Monro and Arundel Del Re . During the early part of his writing life, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson wrote poems that featured the "macabre." One such poem is '' Flannan Isle '', based on a real life mystery. WAR POETRY He never saw active service during his brief time as an army private, but his poetry belies his lack of experience, ''Breakfast'' being a prime example of ironic War Verse written during the very early stages of the conflict. Another example of his war-time poetry is ''Back.'' In this poem the speaker wonders how to respond to the questions about what the speaker did in the war. The speaker does not believe that it was his true self who went across, however he knows that physically it was him. REPUTATION His reputation was eclipsed somewhat by the (TLS, 24/2/1927, ''Five Modern Poets'') considers Gibson alongside Eliot, AE , Herbert Read and James Stephens (pp 113-114). It is concluded there that "Mr Gibson's poetry... has its own specific qualities and is, in its essentials unique". In 1942 Philip Tomlinson refers to Gibson as "this distinguished poet" (TLS 31/1/1942 p.57).; his work remained popular. FURTHER READING
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