Robert Calverl(e)y Trevelyan (June 28,1872 - March 21,1951) was an English poet and translator, a follower of the lapidary style of Logan Pearsall Smith.
Life[]
Trevelyan was the 2nd son of Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd baronet, and his wife Caroline (Philips), the daughter of Robert Needham Philips,[1] a Liberal Member of Parliament and textile merchant from Lancashire. His brothers were Sir Charles Trevelyan, 3rd baronet, and historian G.M. Trevelyan.
R.C. Tevelyan was born in Weybridge
He was educated at Harrow.
From 1891 to 1895 he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge,[2] where he was a Cambridge Apostle. He studied classics and then law; his father wanted him to follow a career as a barrister, but his ambition was to be a poet.[3]
Described as a "rumpled, eccentric poet", and sometimes considered a rather ineffectual person, he was close to the Bloomsbury Group, who called him 'Bob Trevy'.[4] He had a wide further range of social connections: George Santayana from 1905;[5] Isaac Rosenberg;[6][7] Bernard Berenson; G.E. Moore; E.M. Forster with whom he and Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson travelled to India in 1912.[8]
His pacifist principles extended to sheltering John Rodker during World War I.
He married Dutch musician Elizabeth van der Hoeven; artist Julian Trevelyan was their son.
Writing[]
Trevelyan wrote a number of verse dramas.
Recognition[]
In popular culture[]
The Bride of Dionysus (1912) was made into an opera by Sir Donald Tovey.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Mallow and Asphodel. London: Macmillan, 1898.
- Polyphemus, and other poems. London: R. Brimley Johnson / Adelphi, 1901.
- The Foolishness of Solomon. London: Allen & Unwin, 1915.
- The Death of Man, and other poems. London: Allen & Unwin, 1919.
- Poems and Fables. London: Hogarth Press, 1925.
- The Deluge, and other poems. London: Hogarth Press, 1926.
- Meleager. London: Hogarth Press, 1927.
- Rimeless Numbers. London: Hogarth Press, 1932.
- Poems. London: Macmillan, 1934.
- Selected Poems. London: Macmillan, 1934; London: McGibbon & Kee, 1953.
- Beelzebub, and other poems. London: Hogarth Press, 1935.
- Aftermath. London: Hogarth Press, 1941.
Plays[]
- Sisyphus: An operatic fable. London: Longmans Green, 1908.
- The New Parsifal: An operatic fable. London: privately published at the Chiswick Press, 1914.
- The Pterodamozels: An operatic fable. London: privately published at the Pelican Press, 1916.
- The Bride of Dionysus: A music drama. Edinburgh: D. Macdonald, [19--?]
- Cecili Gonzaga. London: Longmans Green, 1903.
- The Birth of Parsifal. London & New York: Longmans Green, 1905.
- Cheiron. London: Hogarth Press, 1927.
- Three Plays: Sulla, Fand, The pearl-tree. London: Hogarth Press, 1931.
Non-fiction[]
- Thamyris; or, Is there a future for poetry?. London: Kegan Paul, 1925; New York: Dutton, 1935.
- Windfalls: Notes and essays. London: Allen & Unwin, 1948.
Translated[]
- Lucretius, Lucretius on Death: Being a translation of Book III, lines 830 to 1094 of the 'De rerum natura'. London: Omega Workshop, 1917.
- Lucretius, Translations from Lucretius. London: Allen & Unvin, 1920.
- Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 1922.
- Sophocles, The Antigone. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 1924.
- Sophocles, The Ajax. London: Allen & Unwin, 1919.
- Theocritus, The Idylls. London: Casanova Society, 1925.
- Lucretius, De Rerum Natura. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1937.
- Aeschyls, Prometheus Bound. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1939.
- Giacomo Leopardi, Translations from Leopardi. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1941.
- Translations from Horace, Juvenal, & Montaigne: With two imaginary conversations. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1941.
- Virgil, The Eclogues and the Georgics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1944.
- From the Chinese. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1945.
- Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1946.
- Translations from Latin Poetry. London: Allen & Unwin, 1949.
- Translations from Greek Poetry. London: Allen & Unwin, 1950.
Collected editions[]
- The Bride of Dionysus: A music-drama; and other poems (play, poems & translations). London: Longmans, 1912.
- Collected Works. (2 volumes), London: Longman, 1939.
Edited[]
- An Annual of New Poetry. London: Constable, 1917; Charleston, SC: Forgotten Books, 2010.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[9]
See also[]
References[]
Fonds[]
- The Robert Calverley Trevelyan fonds at the Victoria University Library at the University of Toronto consists of twelve letters written to Mrs. Rosebery concerning writing, travel, friends, social activities and other matters.
Notes[]
- ↑ "Sir George Otto, Bart Trevelyan". Encyclopedia Britannica 1911, Volume 27. 1911. p. 255. http://ia311326.us.archive.org//load_djvu_applet.php?file=2/items/EncyclopaediaBritannica1911HQDJVU/Encyclopedia_Britannica_27_Tonalite_-_Vesuvius.djvu. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
- ↑ Trevelyan, Robert Calverley in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
- ↑ William C. Lubenow, The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life (1998), p. 178.
- ↑ Nicola Beauman, Morgan: A biography of E.M. Forster (1993), 116.
- ↑ John McCormick, George Santayana: A Biography (2003), 114.
- ↑ http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/rose/life.html
- ↑ Vivien Noakes, The Poems and Plays of Isaac Rosenberg: A Critical Edition (2004), xliv.
- ↑ E. M. Forster, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1962 edition), 135.
- ↑ Search results = au:R C Trevelyan, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Mar. 29, 2015.
External links[]
- Books
- R.C. Trevelyan at the Online Books Page
- R.C. Trevelyan at Amazon.com
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