Clifford Henry Dyment

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(20 January 1914 – 5 June 1971) was a British poet, literary critic, editor and journalist, best known for his poems on countryside topics. Born to Welsh parents, his mother was widowed when Dyment was four years old.Peter Dale
"Dyment, Clifford" in ''The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English,''
Ian Hamilton (ed.), Oxford Univ. Press, 1994, p. 142. . Born in Alfreton, Derbyshire, he spent his early childhood in Caerleon-on-Usk but was educated at Loughborough Grammar School in Leicestershire. His poem "The Son" was occasioned by his discovery of a letter written by his conscripted father prior to his death in World War I. Another Dyment poem "From Many a Mangled Truth a War is Won" laments the tendency to invent pretexts and justifications for wars.Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark (eds.), ''Peace and War: A Collection of Poems'', Oxford Univ. Press, 1989. 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. His poem ''As a boy with a richness of needs I wandered'' was included by Philip Larkin in ''The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse'', in 1971. The poem ''Mouse'' was set to music by

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as part of her song cycle of ''Cat and Mouse'' (1987). He received a

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Atlantic Award in 1950.Clifford Dyment, Roy Fuller and Montagu Slater (editors), ''New Poems 1952'' (1952), p. 161.

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) *''

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'' (1963 biography) *''Collected Poems'' (1970) 'The Encounter'

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dyment, Clifford 1914 births 1971 deaths People educated at Loughborough Grammar School People from Alfreton Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature 20th-century British poets British male poets 20th-century British male writers