1909 b. Yorkshire. English Poet Writer Communist. 1929 m. the poet . 1930 Co-editor and contributor to Experiment Contributor to transition. 1935 Publishes Petron 1936 One of the organizers of the International Surrealist Exhibition together with David Gascoyne, Humphrey Jennings, Rupert Lee, Diana Brinton Lee, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Roland Penrose, Herbert Read, . The French organizing committee were: Andre Breton; Paul Eluard, Georges Hugnet, Man Ray Photographed with Rupert Lee, Ruthven Todd, Salvador Dali, Paul Eluard, Roland Penrose, Herbert Read, , George Reavey, Diana Brinton Lee, Nusch Eluard, Eileen Agar, Sheila Legge Wrote In the Stump of the Old Tree... ->. Sept; Signed Declaration on Spain. 1938 Divorced from Kathleen (who m. Charles Madge). 1940 He was to stand as a communist candidate in the general election, but the vote was cancelled because of World War II. Numbered T. S. Eliot ->, I. A. Richards ->, Anthony Blunt ->, Wittgenstein -> and Salvador Dali amongst his circle. At one stage he had Lowry -> declared his ward in an attempt to stop Lowry's drinking. 1984 d. See Sewanee Review -> and Four Poems -> and wiki ->. See Timeline