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| 22 May 2020 | |
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| Sidney Arthur Kilworth Keyes (HS 35-40) 1922 – 1943 'Sidney Keyes… potentially the finest English poet of the Second World War' — Robert Nye. War Poet I am the man who looked for peace and found My own eyes barbed. I am the man who groped for words and found An arrow in my hand. I am the builder whose firm walls surround A slipping land. When I grow sick or mad Mock me not nor chain me: When I reach for the wind Cast me not down: Though my face is a burnt book And a wasted town. Sidney Keyes – March 1942 Tonbridge School Register 1920-1985: KEYES, Sidney Arthur Kilworth. 35.3-40.3. H.S. 0.8. R. Keyes, O.T. b. 1922. Sch. Prae. 40; Judd Exhib.; Hist. Schol. Queen's Coll., Oxf., 40. War: Q.O.R.W. Kent Regt. 42; Lt. 42. Killed in Tunisia, 28 Apr. 43. Posthumously awarded the Hawthornden Prize, 42. War Poets Association biography of Sidney Keyes: www.warpoets.org/conflicts/world-war-ii/sidney-keyes-1922-1943/ Keyes' obituary and Peter Carpenter's Tonbridgian article about Sidney can be found in the Digital Archives. https://www.tonbridgeschoolheritage.co.uk Sidney Keyes, Voices About Him https://www.tonbridgeschoolheritage.co.uk Sidney Keyes Obituary |
