Gunn, Thom
Gunn, Thom ( Thomson William Gunn ) ( 1929 – 2004 ),poet, born in Gravesend, the son of a journalist, and educated at University College School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a contemporary of Ted Hughes . His first volume of poems, Fighting Terms, was published in 1954 ; shortly afterwards he took up a fellowship at Stanford University, California (where he came under the influence of Winters ), and in 1960 he settled permanently in San Francisco, gradually relinquishing the academic life for a full-time career as a writer. His collections include The Sense of Movement ( 1957 ), My Sad Captains ( 1961 ), Moly ( 1971 ), and Jack Straw's Castle ( 1976 ). His celebration of men of action (soldiers, motorcyclists, tough boys), his fascination with violence, his gallery of heroes (who range from Elvis Presley to Caravaggio), together with his predominantly low-key,...
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