Prince, F.T.

Prince, F.T.

▪ South African poet
in full  Frank Templeton Prince  
born September 13, 1912, Kimberley, Cape Province, South Africa
died August 7, 2003, Southampton, Hamptonshire, England

      South African-born poet who wrote long-lined poetry of quiet intensity. His work is best exemplified by his much-anthologized war poem "Soldiers Bathing."

      Prince was born to British immigrants in South Africa and attended Christian Brothers College in Kimberley, South Africa; The University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg; Balliol College, Oxford (B.Litt. with first-class honours, 1934); and Princeton University in the United States. The poets who influenced his early writing were W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot, who as an editor at Faber and Faber, brought out Prince's first volume of poetry, Poems (1938). Prince was a reader in English literature (1946–57) and then a professor of English (1957–74) at the University of Southampton in England. After retiring from Southampton, he taught in Jamaica, the United States, and North Yemen (now part of Yemen). In addition to his later volumes of poetry—notably The Doors of Stone: Poems, 1938–1962 (1963), and Collected Poems, 1935–1992 (1993), he produced two autobiographical works, Memoirs of Oxford (1970) and Walks in Rome (1987). His many critical works include an erudite book on John Milton, The Italian Element in Milton's Verse (1954).

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