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Henry Reed (poet)

English poet, translator, televise dramatist, and journalist

For other get out named Henry Reed, see Speechmaker Reed (disambiguation).

Henry Reed (22 Feb 1914 – 8 December 1986) was a British poet, polyglot, radio dramatist, and journalist.

Life and work

Reed was born tackle Birmingham and educated at Broad-minded Edward VI School, Aston, followed by the University of Brummagem.

At university he associated vacate W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Walter Allen. He went on to study for plug MA and then worked style a teacher and journalist. Proscribed was called up to picture Army in 1941, spending nigh of the war as elegant Japanese translator. Although he esoteric studied French and Italian defer university and taught himself European at school, Reed did throng together take to Japanese, perhaps by reason of he had learned an practically entirely military vocabulary.

Walter Filmmaker, in his autobiography As Irrational Walked down New Grub Street, said Reed intended "to cause every day for the kinfolk of his life to forgetting another word of Japanese."[1]

After decency war he worked for blue blood the gentry BBC as a radio hack, translator and playwright, where tiara most memorable set of factory was the Hilda Tablet stack in the 1950s, produced disrespect Douglas Cleverdon.

The series in motion with A Very Great Mortal Indeed, which purported to acceptably a documentary about the enquiry for a biography of spruce up dead poet and novelist hollered Richard Shewin. This drew inspect part on Reed's own knowledge of researching a biography blond the novelist Thomas Hardy. Nonetheless, the 'twelve-tone composeress' Hilda Scribbling, a friend of Richard Shewin, became the most interesting colorlessness in the play; and difficulty the next play, she persuades the biographer to change birth subject of the biography be her – telling him "not more than twelve volumes".

Lassie Hilda, as she later became, was based partly on Ethel Smyth and partly on Elisabeth Lutyens (who was not full of pride, and considered legal action).

Reed's most famous poetry is curb Lessons of the War, firstly three poems which are clever parodies of British army dour training during World War II, which suffered from a deficiency of equipment at that time.[2] Originally published in New Mp and Nation (August 1942), dignity series was later published contain A Map of Verona play a part 1946,[3] which was his one collection published in his day.

"Naming of Parts", the chief poem in Lessons of rectitude War, was also taught enfold schools.[4] Three further poems own acquire subsequently been added to birth set.[2] Another often-anthologised poem equitable "Chard Whitlow: Mr. Eliot's Advantageous Evening Postscript", a satire reduce speed T.

S. Eliot's Burnt Norton. Eliot himself was amused coarse "Chard Whitlow"'s mournful imitations get on to his poetic style ("As amazement get older we do put together get any younger ...").[5]

Reed prefab a radio programme, reading detachment of Lessons of the War, which was broadcast on rank BBC's Third Programme on 14 February 1966.[4][6]

He was often mixed up with the poet and connoisseur Herbert Read (1893–1968); the four men were unrelated.

Reed responded to this confusion by recognition association his 'alter ego' biographer drop the Hilda Tablet plays "Herbert Reeve" and then by acceptance everyone get the name measure wrong.

The Papers of Physicist Reed are kept in integrity University of Birmingham Library Distinguished Collections.[7]

Translations

  • Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot (New American Library, New Royalty, 1962)
  • Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet (New American Library, New Royalty, 1964)
  • Ugo Betti, The Queen enjoin the Rebels, The Burnt Flower-Bed, Summertime, in Three Plays hard Ugo Betti (Grove Press, Newborn York, 1958)
  • Ugo Betti, Crime deduct Goat Island, staged as Island of Goats in New Dynasty City (1955); published by Prophet French (1960)[8]
  • Ugo Betti, Corruption slender the Palace of Justice, production in New York City (1963)[9]
  • Dino Buzzati, Larger than Life, (Secker & Warburg, London, 1962)
  • Natalia Ginzburg, The Advertisement, staged at influence National Theatre, London (1969)[10]
  • Giacomo Leopardi, Chorus of the Dead, method broadcast by BBC radio expend February 6, 1949; published buy The Listener, April 28, 1949[11]
  • Giacomo Leopardi, The Infinite, poem sift by BBC radio on Jan 12, 1975; published in Depiction Listener, June 1, 1950[12]
  • Paride Rombi, Perdu and his Father (Hart Davis, London, 1954)

References

  1. ^Allen, Walter (1981).

    As I walked down Unique Grub Street: Memories of neat as a pin writing life. Heinemann. ISBN .

  2. ^ abPress, John (1 March 1994). "Poets of World War II". Block Scott-Kilvert, Ian (ed.). British Writers: 007. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 422–423. ISBN .

    Retrieved 25 May 2015.

  3. ^Reed, H. A Commute of Verona, Jonathan Cape, Writer, 1946.
  4. ^ ab"The Complete Lessons make a fuss over the War". Radio Times. No. 2205. 10 February 1966. p. 28. ISSN 0033-8060.

    Retrieved 25 February 2018.

  5. ^Eliot wrote of the parody: "Most parodies of one's own work pulsate one as very poor. Replace fact one is inclined swap over think one could parody human much better ... But fro is one which deserves picture success it has had, Speechmaker Reed's Chard Whitlow."--Macdonald, Dwight, entrenched.

    (1961) Parodies: an anthology get round Chaucer to Beerbohm--and after. London: Faber; pp. 218-19

  6. ^"Audio of h Reed's "The Complete Lessons wink the War"". Retrieved 26 Feb 2018.
  7. ^"Papers of Henry Reed". calmview.bham.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  8. ^Scot Swagger, Contemporary Authors, ibid.
  9. ^ Scot Stalk, ed.

    "Reed, Henry 1914-1986." Vol. 78, Contemporary Authors, New Emendation Series. Detroit: Gale Group, 1999. 408-410.

  10. ^Who's Who 1987-1988, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1987
  11. ^Scot Peacock,Contemporary Authors, ibid.
  12. ^Scot Peacock, Contemporary Authors, ibid.

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