"The Journals Of Denton Welch" 1984 DE-LA-NOY, Michael [edited by]

DE-LA-NOY, Michael [edited by]

[378] pp.

Allison & Busby

1984

First UK Edition

9 1/2" x 6 1/2"

Maurice Denton Welch (29 March 1915 – 30 December 1948) was a British writer and painter, admired for his vivid prose and precise descriptions.

The Denton Welch Journals refers to a number of works which published the notebooks of the English writer and painter Denton Welch. These he kept from July 1942 until four months before his death in 1948.

Although published after his death, Michael De-la-Noy, in his introduction to the 1984 edition, states that the "journals" title was the author's own, as Welch had never intended merely to keep a daily diary. As such, the notebooks include undated fragments, a substantial entry for an uncompleted novel, as well as poetry and longer prose passages (all of which were published separately). De-la-Noy observes that several of the entries seem intended as a recollection write-up for use elsewhere, potentially prompted by an anniversary or other memory-triggering event.