Keith Douglas

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Keith Castellain Douglas (24 January 1920 – 9 June 1944) was an English poet known for his war poetry during the Second World War and his wry memoir of the Western Desert campaign, Alamein to Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem Zem

During Normandy's invasion, he was killed in combat.

Early life

Douglas was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Kent, Capt. Keith Sholto Douglas, MC (retired), and Marie Josephine Castellain. In 1924, his mother became sick and died, but he was never to recover completely. By 1926, the chicken farm operation that his father had set up had failed. Douglas was accepted at Edgeborough School, a preparatory school in Guildford, in the same year. His family became increasingly poor, and his father was forced to leave home in early 1928 to seek better jobs in Wales. Marie's persistent illness led to the breakdown of his parents' marriage by the end of the decade, and his father remarried in 1930. Douglas was greatly distraught by his father's silence after 1928, and Capt. Douglas did write at last in 1938, but Keith did not want to meet him at that time. Douglas wrote in one of his letters from 1940: "I lived alone during the most volatile and formative years of his life," Douglas wrote, and during this period, he was able to persuade me that the things I imagined would come true."

Marie Douglas's financial situation was so bad that only the generosity of Mr. James, the Edgeborough headmaster, encouraged Douglas to attend school in 1930-1931, his last year there. Douglas took the entrance examination to Christ's Hospital in 1931, where education was free and there was monetary assistance to pay for all other expenses. In September 1931, he was accepted and enrolled Christ's Hospital near Horsham, studying there until 1938. His remarkable poetic talent and artistic ability were exhibited at this academy. His valier attitude to power and property, which nearly resulted in expulsion in 1935 due to a purloined training rifle, was also a contributing factor. In contrast, he excelled as a member of the Officers Training Corps, especially the drill, although he opposed militarism in a philosophical sense.

Douglas landed in 1935 after his turbulent experience with authority, a period at school where he excelled at both academic and games, and at the end, where he received an open exhibition to Merton College, Oxford, which was where he studied History and English. Edmund Blunden, a First World War veteran and well-known poet, was his mentor at Merton and admired his poetic abilities. Blunden wrote his poems to T. S. Eliot, the doyen of English poetry, who found Douglas's verses 'impressive.' Douglas became the editor of Cherwell and one of the poets anthologised in the collection Eight Oxford Poets (1941), but by the time that number appeared, he was already serving in the army. He doesn't appear to have been familiar with Sidney Keyes, Drummond Allison, John Heath-Stubbs, and Philip Larkin, who would make names for themselves. He was a good friend with J. C. Hall, who became his literary executor at Oxford.

Douglas began a friendship with Yingcheng, or Betty Sze, the daughter of a diplomat, while at Oxford. Her own feelings against him were less strong, and she refused to marry him. Despite his interactions with other women later, most notably Milena Guiterrez Penya, Yingcheng maintained the unrequited love of Douglas's life and the source of his best romantic poetry.

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