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Keith Castellain Douglas (24 January 1920 – 9 June 1944) was a poet and soldier noted for his war poetry during the Second World War and his wry memoir of the Western Desert campaign, Alamein to Zem Zem. He was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy.
Keith Douglas. 1920–1944. Considered one of the foremost English poets of World War II, Keith Douglas was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, in 1920. He is best remembered for poems describing his experiences as a tank commander in North Africa.
Keith Douglas is now widely recognized as Britain’s most important poet of the Second World War and a major poet of the Twentieth Century. Born in Tunbridge Wells on 24 January 1920, he was killed in Normandy on 9 June 1944, three days after landing on D Day.
Keith Douglas was a British poet of World War II. A soldier who served in the Middle East and in the D-Day landings, his experience of mechanized warfare profoundly shaped his writing. His poems explore themes of violence, love, mortality, and the human condition in the face of conflict.
2 de jun. de 2012 · Pero ninguno de ellos escribía como Keith Douglas. Dotado de un enorme talento literario y gran poeta, alabado por T. S Eliot y Lawrence Durrell, Douglas luchó como oficial de blindados al...
Like the Great War poets, he fought in a familiar environment with its own dramatic desert landscape and horrors, death and the detritus of tank warfare constantly around him. In “Landscape with Figures 2,” Douglas talks about the scrub and sand where “dead men wriggle/in their dowdy clothes.
Keith Castellain Douglas (24 January 1920– 9 June 1944) was an English poet noted for his war poetry during the Second World War and his wry memoir of the Western Desert campaign, Alamein to Zem Zem. He was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy.
