English surrealist poet and author known for such works as Requiem, A Vagrant and Other Poems, Night Thoughts, and Sun at Midnight. His literary reputation perhaps most rests on two exceptional works: Man's Life is This Meat, published in 1936, and H lderlin's Madness, published in 1938. His first poetry collection, Roman Balcony and Other Poems, was published when he was sixteen years old.
