Vivian de Sola Pinto

Vivian de Sola Pinto (9 December 1895 – 27 July 1969) was an English poet, literary critic, and historian.

Life
He was a close friend of Siegfried Sassoon, having fought in World War I alongside him, as his second-in-command, in France.

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 was a leading scholarly authority on D.H. Lawrence, and appeared for the defence (Penguin Books) in the 1960 Lady Chatterley's Lover trial.

He is also known as the translator of France Prešeren's poetry into the English language.

Recognition
His poetry was included in the Oxford Book of Modern Verse.

In popular culture
He appears as Velmore in the 'Sherston' books (Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man etc.) by Sassoon.

Poetry

 * The Invisible Sun, 1934.
 * This Is My England, 1941 - poems

Non-fiction

 * Peter Sterry: Platonist and Puritan, 1613-1672 (1934)
 * Crisis in English Poetry: 1880-1940, 1951.
 * Enthusiast in Wit: A Portrait of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 1647-1680 (1962)
 * The English Renaissance 1510-1680

Edited

 * Works of Sir Charles Sedley, with a study of Sedley (1928)
 * The Tree of Life: An Anthology (editor with George Neill Wright), 1929.
 * 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. Lawrence (editor with F. Warren Roberts), 1964.
 * The Restoration Court Poets: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester; Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset; Sir Charles Sedley; Sir George Etheredge (1965)