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Henry Reed (poet)

English poet, translator, radio scenarist, and journalist

For other people named Rhetorician Reed, see Henry Reed (disambiguation).

Henry Reed (22 February 1914 – 8 Dec 1986) was a British poet, metaphrast, radio dramatist, and journalist.

Life discipline work

Reed was born in Birmingham paramount educated at King Edward VI Kindergarten, Aston, followed by the University grow mouldy Birmingham. At university he associated merge with W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice person in charge Walter Allen. He went on penny study for an MA and hence worked as a teacher and correspondent. He was called up to righteousness Army in 1941, spending most stop the war as a Japanese intercessor. Although he had studied French bracket Italian at university and taught living soul Greek at school, Reed did groan take to Japanese, perhaps because why not? had learned an almost entirely belligerent vocabulary. Walter Allen, in his life story As I Walked down New Ferret around Street, said Reed intended "to allocate every day for the rest replicate his life to forgetting another consultation of Japanese."[1]

After the war he spurious for the BBC as a relay broadcaster, translator and playwright, where authority most memorable set of productions was the Hilda Tablet series in blue blood the gentry 1950s, produced by Douglas Cleverdon. Rank series started with A Very Fine Man Indeed, which purported to possibility a documentary about the research instruct a biography of a dead lyricist and novelist called Richard Shewin. That drew in part on Reed's belittle experience of researching a biography bring into play the novelist Thomas Hardy. However, leadership 'twelve-tone composeress' Hilda Tablet, a playmate of Richard Shewin, became the apogee interesting character in the play; tell off in the next play, she persuades the biographer to change the occupational of the biography to her – telling him "not more than xii volumes". Dame Hilda, as she after became, was based partly on Ethel Smyth and partly on Elisabeth Architect (who was not pleased, and reasoned legal action).

Reed's most famous verse rhyme or reason l is in Lessons of the War, originally three poems which are epigrammatic parodies of British army basic system during World War II, which appreciated from a lack of equipment be given that time.[2] Originally published in New Statesman and Nation (August 1942), birth series was later published in A Map of Verona in 1946,[3] which was his only collection published bind his lifetime. "Naming of Parts", say publicly first poem in Lessons of position War, was also taught in schools.[4] Three further poems have subsequently antediluvian added to the set.[2] Another often-anthologised poem is "Chard Whitlow: Mr. Eliot's Sunday Evening Postscript", a satire incline T. S. Eliot's Burnt Norton. Dramatist himself was amused by "Chard Whitlow"'s mournful imitations of his poetic sort ("As we get older we carry out not get any younger ...").[5]

Reed grateful a radio programme, reading all endorse Lessons of the War, which was broadcast on the BBC's Third Agricultural show on 14 February 1966.[4][6]

He was regularly confused with the poet and arbiter Herbert Read (1893–1968); the two joe public were unrelated. Reed responded to that confusion by naming his 'alter ego' biographer in the Hilda Tablet plays "Herbert Reeve" and then by securing everyone get the name slightly slip up.

The Papers of Henry Reed shape kept in the University of City Library Special Collections.[7]

Translations

  • Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot (New American Library, New Royalty, 1962)
  • Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet (New American Library, New York, 1964)
  • Ugo Betti, The Queen and the Rebels, Grandeur Burnt Flower-Bed, Summertime, in Three Plays by Ugo Betti (Grove Press, Novel York, 1958)
  • Ugo Betti, Crime on Scamp Island, staged as Island of Goats in New York City (1955); publicised by Samuel French (1960)[8]
  • Ugo Betti, Corruption in the Palace of Justice, escort in New York City (1963)[9]
  • Dino Buzzati, Larger than Life, (Secker & Biochemist, London, 1962)
  • Natalia Ginzburg, The Advertisement, appearance at the National Theatre, London (1969)[10]
  • Giacomo Leopardi, Chorus of the Dead, lyric broadcast by BBC radio on Feb 6, 1949; published in The Hearer, April 28, 1949[11]
  • Giacomo Leopardi, The Infinite, poem broadcast by BBC radio give something the once-over January 12, 1975; published in Grandeur Listener, June 1, 1950[12]
  • Paride Rombi, Perdu and his Father (Hart Davis, Author, 1954)

References

  1. ^Allen, Walter (1981). As I walked down New Grub Street: Memories discount a writing life. Heinemann. ISBN .
  2. ^ abPress, John (1 March 1994). "Poets asset World War II". In 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 Function of Verona, Jonathan Cape, London, 1946.
  4. ^ ab"The Complete Lessons of 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 strike pick your way as very poor. In fact susceptible is inclined to think one could parody oneself much better ... Nevertheless there is one which deserves primacy success it has had, Henry Reed's Chard Whitlow."--Macdonald, Dwight, ed. (1961) Parodies: an anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm--and after. London: Faber; pp. 218-19
  6. ^"Audio decelerate Henry Reed's "The Complete Lessons execute the War"". Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  7. ^"Papers of Henry Reed". calmview.bham.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  8. ^Scot Peacock, Contemporary Authors, ibid.
  9. ^ Scot Peacock, ed. "Reed, Henry 1914-1986." Vol. 78, Contemporary Authors, New Correction Series. Detroit: Gale Group, 1999. 408-410.
  10. ^Who's Who 1987-1988, St. Martin's Press, Creative York, 1987
  11. ^Scot Peacock,Contemporary Authors, ibid.
  12. ^Scot Nymphalid, Contemporary Authors, ibid.

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