Vivian de Sola Pinto

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Vivian de Sola Pinto (1895-1969). Courtesy Windows on War.

Vivian de Sola Pinto (9 December 1895 - 27 July 1969) was an English poet, literary critic, and historian.

Life

Pinto was a close friend of Siegfried Sassoon, having fought in World War I alongside him, as his second-in-command, in France.

After the war he was at the University of Oxford.

He was a Professor of English at the University of Nottingham from 1938 until 1961.

He was a leading scholarly authority on D.H. Lawrence, and appeared for the defence (Penguin Books) in the 1960 Lady Chatterley's Lover trial.

He is also known as the translator of France Prešeren's poetry into the English language.

Recognition

His poetry was included in the Oxford Book of Modern Verse.

In popular culture

He appears as Velmore in the 'Sherston' books (Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man etc.) by Sassoon.

Publications

Poetry

• Duality. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell, 1922.
• The Invisible Sun: Poems. London: John Lane, 1934.
• This Is My England, and other poems. London: Williams & Norgate, 1941.

Non-fiction

• Sir Charles Sedley, 1639-1701: A study in the life and literature of the Restoration. London: Constable, 1927; New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927.
• Peter Sterry, Platonist and Puritan, 1613-1672: A biographical and critical study with passages selected from his writings. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1934.
• Rochester: Portrait of a restoration poet. London: John Lane, 1935. w
• The English Renaissance, 1510-1680 (with Bruce Pattison). London: Cresset Press, 1938; New York: R.M. McBride, 1938.
• Crisis in English Poetry, 1880-1940. London & New York: Hutchinson, 1951.
• D.H. Lawrence: Prophet of the Midlands. Nottingham, UK: University of Nottingham, 1951.
• English Biography in the Seventeenth Century: Selected short lives. London: G.G. Harrap, 1951; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1951.
• Enthusiast in Wit: A portrait of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester, 1647-1680. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962; Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1962.
• The Restoration Court Poets: John Wilmot, earl of Rochester; Charles Sackville, earl of Dorset; Sir Charles Sedley; Sir George Etherege. London: Published for the British Council and the National Book League, by Longmans, Green, 1965.
• The City that Shone: An autobiography, 1895-1922. London: Hutchinson, 1969; New York: John Day, 1969.

Edited

• Sir Charles Sedley, The Poetical and Dramatic Works. London: Constable, 1928.
• The Tree of Life: An anthology (edited with George Neill Wright). London: Constable, 1929; New York: Oxford University Press, 1929.
• The Teaching of English in Schools: A symposium. London: Macmillan, 1947; London: Macmillan / New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1961.
• Restoration Carnival: Five courtier poets: Rochester, Dorset, Sedley, Etherege & Sheffield. London: Folio Society, 1954.
• Reginald Mainwaring Hewitt, A Selection from His Literary Remains. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell, 1955.
• The Divine Vision: Studies in the poetry and art of William Blake. London: Gollancz, 1957; New York: Haskell House, 1968.
• Bulgarian prose and verse; a selection with an introductory essay. London: University of London / Athlone Press, 1957.
• The Common Muse: An anthology of popular British ballad poetry, XVth-XXth century (edited with Allan Edwin Rodway). London: Chatto & Windus, 1957; New York: Philosophical Library, 1957.
• D.H. Lawrence, The Complete Poems (edited with F. Warren Roberts). London & Melbourne: Heinemann, 1957. .
• Poetry of the Restoration, 1653-1700. London: Heinemann, 1966; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1966. w

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.

See also

• List of British poets
• List of literary critics

External links

Books

• Works by or about Vivian de Sola Pinto in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

About

• Pinto, Vivian de Sola at the Jewish Virtual Library