Background
Davies was born in Yorkshire to a Methodist minister and his wife.
Davies was born in Yorkshire to a Methodist minister and his wife.
He went to Kingswood School, Bath and studied at Cambridge, where he co-edited a student magazine called Experiment with William Empson.
He spent some time in Paris during the 1930s. He was to stand as a communist candidate in the 1940 general election, but the vote was cancelled because of World World War World War II He was one of the organisers of the London International Surrealist Exhibition in 1936. At one stage he had Malcolm Lowry declared his ward in an attempt to stop Lowry"s drinking.
Davies" poems were mostly published in avant garde magazines and were not collected during his lifetime.
His novels include Full Fathom Five (1956) and The Papers of Andrew Melmoth (1960). He also wrote Petron (1935).
He was a University Lecturer and Fellow of Saint John"s College, Cambridge.