Hilary Topham Corke (12 July 1921 - 3 September 2001) was an English poet, prose writer, composer and mineralogist.
Life[]
Corke was born in Malvern, Worcestershire He served in the Royal Artillery during World War II.[1]
His poems appeared in Poetry Now (1956) and Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (1918-1960). Together with Anthony Thwaite and William Plomer he edited New Poems 1961: A P.E.N Anthology of Contemporary Poetry.[1]
He died in Abinger Hammer, Surrey.[1]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- The Early Drowned, and other poems. London: Secker & Warburg, 1961.
Non-fiction[]
- "An astrologian, a mathematician, a musitian, and what not": John Dunstable and the Alban motet. St. Albans, UK: Fraternity of the Friends of Saint Albans Abbey, [1997?]
Translated[]
- Paul Valery, Collected Works, Volume II: Poems in the Rough. (translator & editor). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969.
Edited[]
- New Poems, 1961: A P.E.N. anthology of contemporary poetry.London: Hutchinson, 1961.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[2]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Anthony Thwaite "Hilary Corke, obituaries, The Independent, October 11, 2001. Web, Aug. 29, 2011.
- ↑ Search results = au:Hilary Corke, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Mar. 18, 2020.
External links[]
- Poems
- Books
- Hilary Corke at Amazon.com
- About
- Hilary Corke obituary at The Independent
- Hilary Corke website, updated after his death (archived by the Wayback Machine)
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