Frank Templeton Prince (13 September 1912 – 7 August 2003) was an English poet and academic.
F.T. Prince. Courtesy Anvil Press Poetry.
Life[]
Youth and education[]
Prince was born in Kimberley, South Africa. His father, Henry (Harry) Prince (formerly Prinz), was from the East End of London, of Dutch-Jewish descent, while his mother was Scottish.
Prince was educated at the Christian Brothers College in Kimberley, and then at Balliol College, Oxford.
Career[]
Prince had a visiting position at Princeton University. In World War II he was involved in intelligence work at Bletchley Park.[1]
He married in 1943, and took an academic position after the war at the University of Southampton, where he settled.
In the mid-1970s, he taught at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, as well as Brandeis University in the United States and Sana'a University, Yemen.
Prince died in Southampton in 2003.
Writing[]
Prince's early work drew praise from T.S. Eliot, who was then editor at Faber & Faber. Eliot published some of his poetry in The Criterion before publishing Prince's debut collection, Poems, in 1938.[2]
In work such as the Afterword on Rupert Brooke, Prince's interest in the metrical ideas of Robert Bridges is evident.
He is best known for his poem Soldiers Bathing (written in 1942 during the Second World War), which has been frequently included in anthologies.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Poems. London: Faber, 1938.
- Soldiers Bathing, and other poems. London: Fortune Press, 1954.
- The Stolen Heart. San Francisco: Poems in Folio, 1957.
- The Doors of Stone: Poems, 1938-1962. London: R. Hart-Davis, 1963.
- Memoirs in Oxford (verse autobiography). London: Fulcrum Press, 1970.
- Penguin Modern Poets 20 (by John Heath-Stubbs, F.T. Prince, & Stephen Spender). Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1971.
- Drypoints of the Hasidim. London: Menard Press, 1975.
- Afterword on Rupert Brooke. London: Menard Press, 1976.
- Collected Poems. New York: Sheep Meadow Press, 1979.
- Yuan Chen Variations. New York: Sheep Meadow Press, 1981.
- Later On. London: Anvil Press Poetry, 1983.
- Fragment Poetry. London: English Association, 1986.
- Walks in Rome (verse autobiography). London: Anvil Press Poetry, 1987.
- Collected Poems, 1935-1992. Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: Sheep Meadow Press, 1993; Manchester, UK: Carcanet Press, 1993.
Non-fiction[]
- The Italian Element In Milton's Verse. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press 1954.
Edited[]
- William Shakespeare, Poems. London, Methuen, 1960; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960.
- John Milton, Comus, and other poems. London, Oxford University Press, 1968.
F.T. Prince - Soldiers Bathing
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[3]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ "Preface". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. January 2007. http://www.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/prelims/contents/07a/preface/.
- ↑ "Professor F.T. Prince". The Independent. 8 August 2003. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-f-t-prince-548554.html. Retrieved 10 August 2011. "Author of one of the two best-known poems of the Second World War"
- ↑ Search results=F.T. Prince, WorldCat, Web, July 16, 2012.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Soldiers Bathing"
- F.T. Prince at the Poetry Foundation
- "The Book" - Poem of the Week at The Guardian
- Books
- F.T. Prince at Amazon.com
- About
- F.T. Prince at Anvil Press Poetry
- F.T. Prince in the Encyclopædia Britannica
- "F.T. Prince, 90, poet inspired by war, dies" obituary, New York Times
- F.T. Prince obituary at The Guardian
- F.T. Prince: Collected Poems reviewed at The Guardian
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