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A.S.J. Tessimond

Born

in Birkenhead, The United Kingdom

July 19, 1902

Died

May 13, 1962

Genre

Poetry

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Arthur Seymour John Tessimond was an English poet.

He went to Charterhouse School, but ran away at age 16. After studying at Liverpool University, he moved to London where he worked in bookshops, and also as a copywriter.

After avoiding military service in World War II, he later discovered he was unfit for service.

An eccentric and an Imagist, Tessimond wrote astute, elegant, urban poetry. He suffered from bipolar disorder, and received electro-convulsive therapy. He first began to publish in the 1920s in literary magazines. He was to see three volumes of poetry were published during his life: Walls of Glass in 1934, Voices in a Giant City in 1947 and Selections in 1958. He contributed several poems to a 1952 edition of Bewick's Birds.

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Average rating: 3.94 · 31 ratings · 1 review · 7 distinct works

	Collected Poems by Frances Horovitz, A.S.J. Tessimond 4.37 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1983 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collected Poems: with Translations from Jacques Prévert by A.S.J. Tessimond, Hubert Nicholson (Editor) 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1985 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not Love Perhaps 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collected Poems: with translations from Jacques Prévert by A.S.J. Tessimond, Hubert Nicholson (Editor) 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Morning Meeting: Poems by A.S.J. Tessimond, Hubert Nicholson (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Bewick's Birds: A Selection by Thomas Bewick, A.S.J. Tessimond 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1952 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by A.S.J. Tessimond (?)

“Cats, no less liquid than their shadows,
Offer no angles to the wind.
They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes
Less than themselves.”
― A.S.J. Tessimond, Collected Poems: with Translations from Jacques Prévert

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“He is in love with the land that is always over

The next hill and the next, with the bird that is never,

Caught, with the room beyond the looking glass.

He likes the half-hid, the half-heard, the half-lit,

The man in the fog, the road without an ending …”
― A.S.J. Tessimond, The Collected Poems of A.S.J. Tessimond

tags: poetic, romantic, romanticism

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