David Wevill

Who is David Wevill?

David Anthony Wevill is a Canadian poet and translator. He became a dual citizen in 1994. Wevill is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at The University of Texas at Austin.

He went to Canada before the outbreak of World War II. He read History and English at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and became a noted member of an underground literary movement in London known as The Group.

Wevill first made a name for himself as a poet when he was included in A. Alvarez's anthology The New Poetry, aimed at resisting the conservative milieu of mainstream British poetry. In 1963 Wevill was showcased in A Group Anthology.

Wevill is also the former editor of Delos, a literary journal centered on poetry in translation and the poetics of translation.

Wevill was the third and final husband of Assia Wevill, from 1960 to her death in 1969.