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Vivian de Sola Pinto (9 December 1895 – 27 July 1969) was a British poet, literary critic and historian.
[1] He was a leading scholarly authority on
D. H. Lawrence , and appeared for the defence (
Penguin Books ) in the 1960
Lady Chatterley's Lover trial.
Pinto was born and grew up in
Hampstead .
[2] He became a close friend of
Siegfried Sassoon , having fought in
World War I alongside him, as his second-in-command, in France. He appears in the '
Sherston ' books (
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer etc.), Sassoon's fictionalised biography, under the pseudonym of "Velmore".
[3]
After the war he was at the
University of Oxford . Later he was Professor in the Department of English at the
University of Nottingham , from 1938 until 1961.
He is also known as the translator of
France Prešeren 's poetry into the
English language .
He was the great-grandson of Rabbi
David Aaron de Sola .
Works
Works of Sir
Charles Sedley , with a Study of Sedley (1928)
The Tree of Life: An Anthology (1929), editor with
George Neill Wright
Peter Sterry: Platonist and Puritan, 1613-1672 (1934)
The Invisible Sun - poems
Crisis in English Poetry: 1880-1940
The Common Muse: An Anthology of Popular British Ballad Poetry 15th-20th Century , editor with
Allan Edwin Rodway
Restoration Carnival: Five courtier poets: Rochester, Dorset, Sedley, Etherege & Sheffield (1954)
Reginald Mainwaring Hewitt: A Selection from his Literary Remains (1955)
The Divine Vision: Studies in the Poetry and Art of William Blake (1957) editor
Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrenc e (1964), editor with F. Warren Roberts
Bulgarian Prose and Verse (1957)
Enthusiast in Wit: A Portrait of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 1647-1680 (1962)
The Restoration Court Poets: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester; Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset; Sir Charles Sedley; Sir George Etheredge (1965)
The English Renaissance 1510-1680
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