1922
Born 17 July at Barnsley, Yorkshire, England. Studied at Barnsley Holgate Grammar
School.
1940-1941
Entered St. Catharine's College, Cambridge.
1941-1946
Served in the Royal Navy (including a long stint in North Russia); became sub-lieutenant
1945
Married Doreen John of Plymouth
1946-1950
St. Catharine's College (BA 1947, MA 1949, Ph.D 1950
1950-1957
Taught at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (Fellow of Trinity College, 1954-1957)
1952
Purity of Diction in English Verse (2nd edition 1967)
1955
Brides of Reason
Articulate Energy (2nd edition 1976.)
1957
A Winter Talent and Other Poems.
1957-1958
Taught at University of California, Santa Barbara
1957-1964
Returned to teach at Cambridge (Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, 1959-1964).
1959
The Forests of Lithuania.
1961
A Sequence for Francis Parkman
New and Selected Poems
The Heyday of Sir Walter
Scott.
1963
The Language of Science and the Language of Literature, 1700-1740.
1964-1968
Appointed Professor of Literature at the new University of Essex; served as
Pro-Vice-Chancellor, 1965-1968.
1964
Events and Wisdoms: Poems 1957-1963
Ezra Pound: Poet as Sculptor.
1965
The Poems of Dr. Zhivago.
1968-1978
Appointed Professor of English at Stanford University, California.
1969
Essex Poems.
1970
Six Epistles to Eva Hesse.
1972
Collected Poems 1950-1970
Thomas Hardy and British Poetry
1973
Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
1974
The Shires.
1976
Pound.
1977
In the Stopping Train and Other Poems
The Poet in the Imaginary Museum
Essays
of Two Decades.
1978-1988
Taught at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, as Mellon Professor of
the Humanities.
1979
Trying to Explain.
1981
Three for Water Music
The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse (ed.)
1982
These the Companions: Recollections.
1987
Named Fellow, British Academy.
1995
Died 18 September, Exeter, England.
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