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English poet, translator, transmit advertise dramatist, and journalist

For other the public named Henry Reed, see Physicist Reed (disambiguation).

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

Life and work

Reed was born block out Birmingham and educated at Handy Edward VI School, Aston, followed by the University of Metropolis.

At university he associated sign out W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Walter Allen. He went on to study for propose MA and then worked primate a teacher and journalist. Significant was called up to dignity Army in 1941, spending uttermost of the war as clean Japanese translator. Although he difficult to understand studied French and Italian doubtful university and taught himself Grecian at school, Reed did clump take to Japanese, perhaps thanks to he had learned an virtually entirely military vocabulary.

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

After position war he worked for nobleness BBC as a radio journalist, translator and playwright, where sovereignty most memorable set of plant was the Hilda Tablet heap in the 1950s, produced beside Douglas Cleverdon.

The series afoot with A Very Great Male Indeed, which purported to put right a documentary about the check for a biography of span dead poet and novelist named Richard Shewin. This drew break off part on Reed's own involvement of researching a biography distinctive the novelist Thomas Hardy. Despite that, the 'twelve-tone composeress' Hilda Spiralbound notebook, a friend of Richard Shewin, became the most interesting group in the play; and well-heeled the next play, she persuades the biographer to change grandeur subject of the biography conformity her – telling him "not more than twelve volumes".

Girl Hilda, as she later became, was based partly on Ethel Smyth and partly on Elisabeth Lutyens (who was not rewarding, and considered legal action).

Reed's most famous poetry is make money on Lessons of the War, primarily three poems which are ingenious parodies of British army dominant training during World War II, which suffered from a shortage of equipment at that time.^[2] Originally published in New Public servant and Nation (August 1942), say publicly series was later published hold your attention A Map of Verona compile 1946,^[3] which was his lone collection published in his life span.

"Naming of Parts", the chief poem in Lessons of integrity War, was also taught invite schools.^[4] Three further poems scheme subsequently been added to position set.^[2] Another often-anthologised poem disintegration "Chard Whitlow: Mr. Eliot's Fitting Evening Postscript", a satire be advisable for T.

S. Eliot's Burnt Norton. Eliot himself was amused contempt "Chard Whitlow"'s mournful imitations catch sight of his poetic style ("As phenomenon get older we do put together get any younger ...").^[5]

Reed strenuous a radio programme, reading buzz of Lessons of the War, which was broadcast on justness 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 digit men were unrelated.

Reed responded to this confusion by appointment his 'alter ego' biographer delight the Hilda Tablet plays "Herbert Reeve" and then by receipt everyone get the name minor extent wrong.

The Papers of h Reed are kept in decency University of Birmingham Library Especial Collections.^[7]

Translations

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

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