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Gibson was educated privately, served briefly in World War I, and thereafter devoted his life to poetry..
Early life Wilfred Gibson was born on 28 February in Dilston, Northumberland.
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
British poet (1878–1962)
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (2 October 1878 – 26 May 1962) was a British Georgian poet, who was associated with World War I but continued publishing poetry into the 1940s and 1950s.
Early work
Gibson was born in Hexham, Northumberland. His parents were Elizabeth Judith Frances (born Walton) and John Pattison Gibson. Her father was a chemist who was interested in photography and antiquarianism.[1] His elder sister Elizabeth, who became his teacher and mentor, also became a published poet.[2] He left the north for London in 1914 after his mother died.
He had been publishing poems in magazines since 1895, and his first collections in book form were published by Elkin Mathews in 1902. His collections of verse plays and dramatic poems The Stonefolds and On The Threshold were published by the Samurai Press (of Cranleigh) in 1907, followed next year by the book of poems, The Web of Life.[3]
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