Tomlinson, Charles

Tomlinson, Charles

▪ English poet
in full  Alfred Charles Tomlinson 
born Jan. 8, 1927, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, Eng.

      English poet whose best work expresses his perceptions of the world with clarity and sensitivity.

      After graduating from the University of Cambridge, Tomlinson traveled extensively, especially in Italy and in the United States, where he was visiting professor at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and professor in literature at Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y. He later became reader and then professor of English poetry at the University of Bristol in England. Less concerned with people and emotions than with the outside world, his poetry has much in common with that of the American poets Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore.

      Tomlinson's early published poetry includes Relations and Contraries (1951) and The Necklace (1955; rev. ed. 1966). Seeing Is Believing (1960) and American Scenes (1966) capture the haunting atmosphere of ghost towns in the desert. Other works include The Poem as Initiation (1968), America West Southwest (1969), Selected Poems 1955–1997 (1997), and Skywriting (2003).

      With Octavio Paz, Tomlinson wrote Air Born/Hijos del aire (1979), a bilingual English-Spanish volume for which each translated the other's poems. Other verse translations (in collaboration with Henry Gifford) are Versions from Fyodor Tyutchev (1960), Castilian Ilexes: Versions from Machado (1963), and Ten Versions from Trilce (1970), from the work of César Vallejo. He also edited The Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation (1980). Nonfiction work includes Some Americans: A Personal Record (1981) and Poetry and Metamorphosis (1983).

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