Victor Plarr (1863-1929). Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Victor Gustave Plarr (June 21, 1863 - January 28, 1929) was an English poet, perhaps best known for his poem Epitaphium Citharistriae.
Life[]
Plarr was born near Strasbourg, France, of a French father from Alsace, and an English mother. He was brought up in England after his family moved at the time of the Franco-Prussian War.
He read history at Worcester College, Oxford.
He worked as a librarian, from 1890 at King's College London, then from 1897 until his death at the Royal College of Surgeons of England .
Plarr was a founding member of the Rhymer's Club. A generally uncongenial figure, he was befriended in 1909 by Ezra Pound, who enjoyed Plarr's tales of the "decadent nineties."
Recognition[]
Plarr compiled the 2 initial volumes of Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons, published the year after his death under the editorship of D'Arcy Power. Often known as Plarr's Lives, the series has been expanded by the addition of 7 more volumes, the most recent in 2005. It is now on the web, at the site Plarr's Lives of the Fellows.[1]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- In the Dorian Mood. New York: George H. Richmond / London: The Bodley Head. 1896.
- The Tragedy of Asgard (long poem). London: Elkin Mathews, 1905.
- Collected Poems (edited by Ian Fletcher). London: Eric & Joan Stevens, 1974.
Non-fiction[]
- A School History of Middlesex including London (with Francis William Walton). London: Methuen, 1905
- Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons. 1930
Juvenile[]
- Thor and the giants; or, Some very old stories for very young people (illustrated by Brinsley Le Fanu). London: Steads, [1901?]
Edited[]
"Epitaphium Citharistriae" by Victor Plarr (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
- Men and Women of the Time: A dictionary of contemporaries. (14th edition), London: Routledge, 1895; (15th), London: Routledge, 1899.
- Ernest Dowson, 1888-1897: Reminiscences, unpublished letters and marginalia. London: Elkin Mathews / New York: Laurence J. Gomm, 1914.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[2]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Plarr's Lives of the Fellows, Royal College of Surgeons of England. Web, Jan. 21, 2021.
- ↑ Search results = au:Victor Plarr, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Jan. 21, 2021.
External links[]
- Poems
- Victor Plarr at AllPoetry (55 poems)
- Books
- Victor Plarr at the Online Books Page
- Victor Plarr at Amazon.com
- About
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