• Hugh Sykes Davies (17 August 1909 – 6 June 1984) was an English poet, novelist and communist, who was one of a small group of 1930s British surrealists...
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  • Presbyterian minister Hugh Morriston Davies (1879–1965), Welsh surgeon Hugh Sykes Davies (1909–1984), English poet and novelist Hugh Davies (cricketer) (1932–2017)...
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    tourists and amateur artists, who quickly became the targets of satire. Hugh Sykes Davies (1909 – 1984) observed their facing away from the object they wished...
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    author and teacher, Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi. Raine married Hugh Sykes Davies in 1930. She left Davies for Charles Madge and they had two children together,...
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  • Unconscious. 24 June – Paul Éluard – La Poésie surréaliste. 26 June – Hugh Sykes Davies – Biology and Surrealism. 1 July – Salvador Dalí – Fantômes paranoïaques...
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  • people Hugh Sykes Davies (1909–1984), English poet and academic Hunter Davies, Scottish writer Huw Irranca-Davies, British politician Ian Davies (disambiguation)...
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    Command) R.N. Currey (poet) Tim Curry (actor, singer and composer) Hugh Sykes Davies (poet, novelist, communist) Arthur Lee Dixon (mathematician and academic)...
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  • university, however, and his penchant for drink was already apparent; Hugh Sykes Davies, one of Lowry's academic supervisors and later a friend, found that...
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  • Bertram Chandler, English-Australian soldier and author (born 1912) Hugh Sykes Davies, English poet and novelist (born 1909) June 10 – Halide Nusret Zorlutuna...
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    published in 1936, which included contributions from André Breton, Hugh Sykes Davies, Paul Éluard, and Georges Hugnet. He also served as a trustee of the...
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  • made him one of a small group of English surrealists that included Hugh Sykes Davies and Roger Roughton. At the exhibition, Gascoyne had to use a spanner...
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  • Charles Madge married the poet Kathleen Raine (previously married to Hugh Sykes Davies). He had two children by Kathleen Raine: Anna Madge (b. 1934) and...
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  • Socialist Dream", The Independent (November 1998) "Remembering Prufrock: Hugh Sykes Davies 1909–1984", Jacket (Fall 2001) Lewis, Clive Staples (14 July 2009)...
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  • Five, a 1958 novel by Lew Dietz Full Fathom Five, a 1956 novel by Hugh Sykes Davies Full Fathom Five, a 1968 novel by J. E. Macdonnell in the Horwitz...
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    beginning to emerge, among them David Gascoyne, George Barker and Hugh Sykes Davies. Like the Objectivists, these poets were relatively neglected by their...
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    John Cornford Maurice Cornforth Bob Crow Christian Darnton Jack Dash Hugh Sykes Davies Edmund Dell George Derwent Thomson Maurice Dobb Mary Docherty Malcolm...
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  • Rodney Dangerfield American comedian Joyce Indig 1949 1962 1963 1970 Hugh Sykes Davies British poet, novelist Fay de Courcy 1947 1962 1982 She was the 3rd...
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  • and a former army sergeant. When Sykes was two, his father remarried and he gained a half-brother named John. Sykes was educated at Ward Street Central...
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    tourists and amateur artists, who quickly became the targets of satire. Hugh Sykes Davies observed their facing away from the object they wished to paint, commenting...
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    English surrealist poetry whose main exponents were David Gascoyne, Hugh Sykes Davies, George Barker, and Philip O'Connor. These poets turned to French...
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  • (1779–1859) Lionel Davidson (1922–2009) Caitlin Davies (born 1964) Hugh Sykes Davies (1909–1984) Peter Ho Davies (born 1966) Lindsey Davis (born 1949) Coningsby...
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  • Bottrall - Norman Cameron - Christopher Caudwell - John Cornford - Hugh Sykes Davies - Clifford Dyment - William Empson - Gavin Ewart - Edgar Foxall -...
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  • auctioneer (born 1913) 6 June Edith Sharpe, actress (born 1894) Hugh Sykes Davies, poet and novelist (born 1909) 7 June – Ethel Gee, Soviet spy (born...
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  • Davies (born 1967, Wales, p/nf) Hugh Sykes Davies (1909–1984, England, p/f) Hunter Davies (born 1936, Scotland/England, nf/f) James Kitchener Davies (1902–1952...
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  • and critic Caitlin Davies (born 1964), novelist and journalist Hunter Davies (born 1936), writer and biographer Hugh Sykes Davies (1909–1984), poet and...
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    critic Alan Davies (born 1951), US poet, critic and editor Hugh Sykes Davies (1909–1984), English poet, novelist and communist Sir John Davies (1569–1626)...
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    which yet does not spoil its naturalness." Among modern critics, Hugh Sykes Davies considered that "the poem has slender merits"; but for Russell Hayes...
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  • (1922–1995, E) Alan Davies (born 1951, US) Deborah Kay Davies (living, W) Hugh Sykes Davies (1909–1984, E) Idris Davies (1905–1953, W) John Davies (1569–1626,...
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  • Mind: Studies in the English Moralists – Presented to Basil Willey by Hugh Sykes Davies and George Watson (1964) Spots of Time: A Retrospect of the Years...
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  • In their book Great Houses of England & Wales (1994), Hugh Massingberd and Christopher Simon Sykes commented that "The present Lord Pembroke is (as Henry...
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