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| THE DENTON WELCH ADMIRATION SITE |
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| This site is for readers of the English writer, Denton Welch. We are dedicated to keeping his spirit alive for the inspiration of ourselves and others. Following a short biography is a complete bibliography of his works. This was compiled by the Denton Welch Library at the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, USA. His novels, "In Youth is Pleasure, "Maiden Voyage", and "A Voice Through A Cloud" are easily order able at most bookstores. There is also an excellent biography called, "Denton Welch, The Making of a Writer' If you would like to contact me please do so at dentonwelch@yahoo.com Before getting to the biography and bibliography here is part of an interview with William Burroughs, who considered Denton Welch his greatest literary influence: TT : Let's talk about Denton Welch. Mr. B. : I am writing an introduction for a German translation of "In Youth is pleasure". I've been running through it and underlining certain passages. I'll just read some at random. He's Such a marvelous writer, the way he can make anything into something. Writers who complain that they don't have anything to write about should read Denton Welch and see what he can do with practically nothing. Like this, he borrows a boy's bicycle. "Oh, yes", said the Stowe boy in his most tired voice, "you can borrow it for as long as you like. I loathe riding it. The saddle seems specially designed to deprive one of one's manhood; but perhaps you won't mind that." Orvil was too happy to be pricked into any retort by the intended insult.., Orvil wished passionately that he had no body so that these remarks could never be applied to him. He felt ashamed to be in position to be deprived of his manhood. His tears made damp, chocolatery lumps out of the feathery dust." The whole surface of the river bristled with a fir of hissing raindrop, sharp as bullets." What a mind ! Denton Welch is actually Kim Carsons in the new book. I sort of kidnapped him to be my hero. And so much of it is w TT : Denton Welch used different characters, didn't he ? Mr. B. : He's only got one character and it's always him. Well, there are other characters, what it all pivots around is an eternally 15-year-old boy. His writing was all done after his accident. He had this accident when he was riding his bicycle and some woman ran into him from behind. That happened when he was 20 and he was an invalid the rest of his life and died at the age of 31 from complications. BR : I like his journals. Mr. B. : I love his journals. I like everything he wrote. I've read every word I could get my hands on. He started out to be a painter. He was in art school when he had the accident. He had a terrific style with the choice of one word or another or a sentence that no one but Denton Welch could have written. I compare him to Jane Bowles because she had the same faculty for writing a sentence that no one else could conceivably have written. And there, again, her complete work is 500 pages or se. People ask me about influences. I should say that he is the strongest influence on my work - stylistically certainly. TT: When did you first read him ? Mr. B : Back in 1947 or 48 when he was still alive. Kerouac read him. I thought he was great. I didn't realize the extent to which he had influenced me or the extent to which the character Audrey Carsons was derived from Dental Welch until I reread him in 1976 in Boulder. Cabell, who I was sharing an apartment with, had found someone who was a Denton Welch fan and had all the books. So I reread them and read some I had not before, like the Diaries. I was even more impressed. Some writers reread well and others don't. He does. And another writer I was influenced by was Joseph Conrad. Biography: Welch, Denton b. March 27, 1915, Shanghai d. Dec. 30, 1948, Middle Orchard, near Borough Green, Kent, Eng. English painter and novelist chiefly remembered for two imaginative novels of adolescence, Maiden Voyage (1943) and In Youth Is Pleasure (1944). Welch was educated at Repton School in Derbyshire. After a visit to China he studied painting at the Goldsmith School of Art. In 1935, while still at school, he was severely injured in a cycling accident that left him an invalid for the rest of his life; but he continued painting, exhibiting frequently at the Leicester galleries, and began his career as a writer. With the exception of two novels and a volume of short stories, Brave and Cruel (1946), Welch's other works have been published posthumously: A Voice Through a Cloud (1950), considered by many his best novel; Journals (1952), an account of his wide travels, taken despite his bad health; I Left My Grandfather's House (1958), which is only a very rough draft; and Denton Welch--Selections from His Published Works (1963), which contains a notable introduction by Jocelyn Brooke. His wonderfully observant journals paint a vivid, unforgettable picture of Britain in the thirties and forties. In them, he's frank about his homosexuality, though it appears to have given him little pleasure. Bibliography 213 Welch, Denton. / At Sir Moorcalm Lalli's : an unfinished short story. / London / 1974 -Q- PR 6045 E517 A8 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 214 Welch, Denton. / Brave and cruel, and other stories. / London / 1948 HRC AC-L W442BR 1948 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 215 Welch, Denton. / Denton Welch : extracts from his published works. / London / 1963 823 W442 C1 Undergraduate Library 216 Welch, Denton. / Denton Welch, extracts from his published works. / London / 1963 HRC TEMP B7897DWE 1963 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 217 Welch, Denton. / Denton Welch, extracts from his published works. / London / 1963 HRC AC-L W442B1 1963 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 218 Welch, Denton. / The Denton Welch journals. / London / 1952 HRC TEMP B7897DW 1952 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 219 Welch, Denton. / The Denton Welch journals. / London / 1973 PR 6045 E517 Z52 1973 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 220 Welch, Denton. / The Denton Welch journals. / London / 1952 HRC AC-L W442G2 1952 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 221 Welch, Denton. / The Denton Welch journals. / London / 1952 HRC TEMP B7897DW 1952A Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 222 Welch, Denton. / Dumb instrument : poems and fragments. / London / 1976 PR 6045 E517 D8 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 223 Welch, Denton. / Fragments of a life story : the collected short writings of Denton Welch. / Harmondsworth, Middlesex / 1987 PR 6045 E517 A6 1987 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 224 Welch, Denton. / Fragments of a life story : the collected short writings of Denton Welch. / Harmondsworth, Middlesex / 1987 PR 6045 E517 A6 1987 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 225 Welch, Denton. / Freuden der Jugend. / Frankfurt am Main / 1985 PR 6045 E517 I515 1985 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 226 Welch, Denton. / I left my grandfather's house. / London / 1984 PR 6045 E517 Z525 1984 PCL Stacks 227 Welch, Denton. / I left my grandfather's house. / London / 1984 PR 6045 E517 Z525 1984 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 228 Welch, Denton. / I left my grandfather's house. / In youth is pleasure. / Cambridge / 1994 PR 6045 E517 I5 1994 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 229 Welch, Denton. / I left my grandfather's house. / Cambridge / 1994 PR 6045 E517 I5 1994 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 230 Welch, Denton. / I left my grandfather's house; an account of his first walking tour by Denton Welch. / (London) / 1958 -Q- HRC AC-L W442I 1958 Humanities Research Center USE IN L 231 Welch, Denton. / I left my grandfather's house; an account of his first walking tour. / (London) / 1958 -Q- HRC AC-L W442I 1958A Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 232 Welch, Denton. / In youth is pleasure. / New York / 1946 HRC AC-L W442IN 1946 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 233 Welch, Denton. / In youth is pleasure. / New York / 1985 PR 6045 E517 I5 1985 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 234 Welch, Denton. / In youth is pleasure. / Oxford (Oxfordshire) / 1982 PR 6045 E517 I5 1982 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 235 Welch, Denton. / In youth is pleasure. / Cambridge / 1994 PR 6045 E517 I5 1994 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 236 Welch, Denton. / In youth is pleasure. / New York / 1946 823 W442I 1946 PCL Stacks 237 Welch, Denton. / In youth is pleasure. / (London) / 1944 HRC AC-L W442IN 1944 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 238 Welch, Denton. / In youth is pleasure. / (London) HRC AC-L W442IN 1945 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 239 Welch, Denton. / In youth is pleasure. German. / Freuden der Jugend. / Frankfurt am Main / 1985 PR 6045 E517 I515 1985 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 240 Welch, Denton. / The journals of Denton Welch. / London / 1984 PR 6045 E517 Z52 1984 PCL Stacks 241 Welch, Denton. / The journals of Denton Welch. / 1st ed. / New York / 1984 PR 6045 E571 Z52 1984B PCL Stacks 242 Welch, Denton. / The journals of Denton Welch. / London / 1984 PR 6045 E517 Z52 1984 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 243 Welch, Denton. / Jungfern Fahrt : Roman. / Frankfurt am Main / 1987 PR 6045 E517 M34315 1987 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 244 Welch, Denton. / A last sheaf. / London / 1951 HRC AC-L W442LA 1951 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 245 Welch, Denton. / A last sheaf. / London / 1951 PR 6045 E517 L3 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 246 Welch, Denton. / A last sheaf. / Discovery; five songs for voice and piano. / London / 1952 -Q- M 1621 F35 D6 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 247 Welch, Denton. / A last sheaf. / London / 1951 PR 6045 E517 L3 HRC WAU Evelyn Waugh Collection USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 248 Welch, Denton. / Macmillan English : thinking and writing processes. / New York / 1988 PE 1121 M32 1988 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 249 Welch, Denton. / Maiden voyage. / New York / 1945 HRC AC-L W442G1 1945 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 250 Welch, Denton. / Maiden voyage. / London / 1968 CT 788 W45 A3 1968 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 251 Welch, Denton. / Maiden voyage. / (London) / 1973 CT 788 W45 A3 1973 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 252 Welch, Denton. / Maiden voyage. / London / 1973 PR 6045 E517 Z527 1973 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 253 Welch, Denton. / Maiden voyage. / London / 1943 CT 788 W45 A3 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 254 Welch, Denton. / Maiden voyage. / Melbourne / 1954 CT 788 W45 A3 1954 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 255 Welch, Denton. / Maiden voyage. / New York / 1983,c1968 PR 6045 E517 Z527 1983 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 256 Welch, Denton. / Maiden voyage. / Harmondsworth, Middlesex / 1983 PR 6045 E517 Z527 1983B Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 257 Welch, Denton. / Maiden voyage. / London / 1968 823 W442M Undergraduate Library 258 Welch, Denton. / Maiden voyage. / New York / 1984 PR 6045 E517 M342 1984 PCL Stacks 259 Welch, Denton. / Maiden voyage. / London / 1968 HRC AC-L W442G1 1968A Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 260 Welch, Denton. / Maiden voyage. German. / Jungfern Fahrt : Roman. / Frankfurt am Main / 1987 PR 6045 E517 M34315 1987 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 261 Welch, Denton. / Maiden voyage. Italian. / Viaggio inaugurale. / Torino / 1990 PR 6045 E517 M34316 1990 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 262 Welch, Denton. / Schicksal. / Frankfurt am Main / 1987 PR 6045 E517 V615 1987 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 263 Welch, Denton. / Short stories. Selections. / The stories of Denton Welch. / 1st ed. / New York / 1985 PR 6045 E517 A6 1985 PCL Stacks 264 Welch, Denton. / Short stories. Selections. / The stories of Denton Welch. / 1st ed. / New York / 1985 PR 6045 E517 A6 1985P Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 265 Welch, Denton. / The stories of Denton Welch. / 1st ed. / New York / 1985 PR 6045 E517 A6 1985 PCL Stacks 266 Welch, Denton. / The stories of Denton Welch. / 1st ed. / New York / 1985 PR 6045 E517 A6 1985P Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 267 Welch, Denton. / Viaggio inaugurale. / Torino / 1990 PR 6045 E517 M34316 1990 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 268 Welch, Denton. / Voce da una nube. Romanzo. / (Milan) / 1971 PR 6045 E517 V63216 1971 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 269 Welch, Denton. / A voice through a cloud. / London / 1966 HRC AC-L W442VO 1966 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 270 Welch, Denton. / A voice through a cloud. / London / 1966 HRC AC-L W442VO 1966B Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 271 Welch, Denton. / A voice through a cloud. / London / 1950 HRC AC-L W442VO 1950 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 272 Welch, Denton. / A voice through a cloud. / London / 1966 823 W442V 1966L PCL Stacks 273 Welch, Denton. / A voice through a cloud. / (Austin / 1966 TZZ 823 W442V 1966 Center for American History TXC-ZZ Collection USE IN LIBRARY ONLY T823 W442V 1966 Center for American History USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 823 W442V 1966 PCL Stacks 274 Welch, Denton. / A voice through a cloud. / (Austin / 1966 PR 6045 E517 V632 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 275 Welch, Denton. / A voice through a cloud. / (Austin / 1966 PR 6045 E517 V653 1966 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 276 Welch, Denton. / A voice through a cloud. / London / 1966 PR 6045 E517 V653 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 277 Welch, Denton. / A voice through a cloud. / Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England / 1983(1950) PR 6045 E517 V6 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 278 Welch, Denton. / A voice through a cloud. / New York / 1983,c1966 PR 6045 E517 V632 1983 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 279 Welch, Denton. / Voice through a cloud. German. / Schicksal. / Frankfurt am Main / 1987 PR 6045 E517 V615 1987 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY 280 Welch, Denton. / When I was an art student. / (North Pomfret, Vt.) / 1998 PR 6045 E517 Z478 1998 Humanities Research Center USE IN LIBRARY ONLY |
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