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David John Murray Wright (23 February 1920 – 28 August 1994) was an author and "an acclaimed South African-born poet". ==Biography== Wright was born in Johannesburg, South Africa 23 February 1920 of normal hearing. When he was 7 years old he contracted scarlet fever and was deafened as a result of the disease. He immigrated to England at the age of 14, where he was enrolled in the Northampton School for the Deaf. He studied at Oriel College, Oxford, and graduated in 1942. His first work, a poem entitled ''Eton Hall'', was published in 1942–43 in the journal ''Oxford Poetry''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = G. Nelson (personal website) )〕 He became a freelance writer in 1947 after working on the ''Sunday Times'' newspaper for five years. With John Heath-Stubbs he edited the ''Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse''. He edited the literary magazine ''Nimbus'' from 1955 to 1956, during which time he published 19 poems, sent to him by Patrick Swift, by Patrick Kavanagh, which proved to be the turing point in Kavanagh's career.〔Antoinette Quinn (''Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography'', Gill & Macmillan, 2001, p. 359): "Publication there was to prove a turning point.…The publication of his next volume of verse, ''Come Dance with Kitty Stobling'', was to be directly linked to the mini-collection in ''Nimbus'', and his ''Collected Poems'' (1964)."〕 He co-founded the quarterly literary review ''X magazine'' which he co-edited from 1959 to 1962. His work includes three books about Portugal written with Patrick Swift, his co-founder and co-editor of ''X''. He translated ''The Canterbury Tales'' and ''Beowulf''. He penned an autobiography in 1969, and a biography of fellow South African poet Roy Campbell in 1961. Wright also edited a number of publications throughout the 1960s and 1970s. He held the Gregory Fellowship in Poetry at the University of Leeds (1965–67). Wright was not reticent about his deafness, and his autobiography, ''Deafness: A Personal Account'' (1969), is often used to give hearing people an insight into an experience they might not easily imagine. In 1951, he married Philippa ("Pippa") Reid (d. 1985); and Oonagh Swift in 1987. Wright lived in Braithwaite, just outside Keswick, in the Lake District of England, and became good friends with Norman Nicholson, a fellow poet, and his wife, often visiting each other. Wright died of cancer in Waldron, East Sussex, 28 August 1994. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Wright (poet)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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