Arthur Henry King

Arthur Henry King (1910-2000). Courtesy Brigham Young University.

Arthur Henry King (February 20, 1910 - January 15, 2000), also found as Arthur H. King, was an English poet, prose writer, and academic.

Life

King was educated at the University of Cambridge, England, and Lund University, Sweden. He held a Doctorate of Literature in stylistics.

He served as Assistant Director-General in charge of Education in England. Beginning in 1943, he was an official in the British Council, serving in Europe, Persia, and Pakistan.

Moving to the United States, King taught English at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah from 1971-1996 and served as an associate director of the University's Honors Program. During his academic tenure in Utah, King contributed articles to BYU Studies and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, as well as magazines published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

King had an international reputation as a poet, author and lecturer. He produced works on 16th and 17th century literature and English as a foreign language.

Writing

King asserted that poet Andrew Marvell was a principal influence on his work, but acknowledged the influence of T.S. Eliot and Yeats.

Publications

Poetry

• 2001 Poetry Collection, posthumous, 2001.
• Cast on the Lord 1996.
• Hymn: Every Kindred, Tongue, and People 1996.
• Conversion: Poems of the Religious Life, 1963-1994.
• Death is the Frame of Love 1988.
• Before a Journey 1987.
• Snowdrops at Ditchly Park 1987.
• Isis Egypt-Bound 1986.
• Nature and the Bourgeois Poet: A Poem 1986.
• The Abundance of the Heart. Salt Lake City, UT: Bookcraft, 1986.
• Entitlement, a poem 1985.
• President Kimball at Mestre, a poem 1985.
• Epithalamion 1978.
• Beyond our Works and Days 1977.
• Be Still 1976.
• Hebrews 11: Strangers and Pilgrims 1976.
• Is It the Tree? 1974.
• On This Gray and Silver Day 1974.
• September the First 1969 and 1974.
• They Seek a Country 1974.
• "Three Poems." BYU Studies Quarterly, 14:2 (1974)
• First Snow 1973.
• A Prophet is Dead; A Prophet Lives 1973.
• September on Campus 1973.
• I Will Make Thee a Terror to Thyself 1972.
• Latter Days (Monday, Aug. 4, 1969) 1971.
• Winter Solstice 1971.
• Hot Weather in Tucson 1969.
• The Right Size 1969.
• Visit to a Cathedral After a Trip Around the World 1969.

Non-fiction

• The language of satirized characters in Poëtaster a sociostylistic analysis, 1597-1602. Lund: Gleerup / London: Williams & Norgate / Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1941; Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, 1968.
• Arm the Children: Faith’s Response to a Violent World with C. Terry Warner, 1998.
• Joseph Smith as a Writer 1986.
• The Abundance of the Heart 1986.
• The Child Is Father of the Man 1976.
• Final Address to the British Council 1975.
• Some Notes on Art and Morality 1970.

Speak That I May See Thee Conversations with Arthur Henry King

See also

• List of British poets

External links

Poems

• Three Poems by Arthur Henry King
• "From Spring to Main: The poetry of Arthur Henry King"

Books

• Arthur Henry King at Amazon.com

About

• "Celebrating Arthur Henry King" at Deseret News