Arthur Henry King

Arthur Henry King (1910 - 2000), also found as Arthur H. King, was a British poet, writer and academic. King was educated at the University of Cambridge, England and Lund University, Sweden and held a Doctor of Literature in stylistics. He served as Assistant Director-General in charge of Education in England. Beginning in 1943, he was an official in the British Council, serving in Europe, Persia, and Pakistan. Moving to the United States, King taught English at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah from 1971-1996 and served as an associate director of the University's Honors Program. King had an international reputation as a poet, author and lecturer. He produced works on sixteenth and seventeenth century literature and English as a foreign language. King asserted that poet Andrew Marvell was a principal influence on his work, but acknowledged the influence of T. S. Eliot and Yeats.

During his academic tenure in Utah, King contributed articles to BYU Studies, Dialogue, and magazines published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

ymposium on King

A 2000 Sunstone symposium in Salt Lake City, Utah offered a tribute to King, focusing on his influence as a "Scholar, Poet, Mentor, Friend." Panelists examined his biography, provided an overview of his poetry and research, and recalled his role as teacher and mentor.

Publications

Poetry

* "2001 Poetry Collection, posthumous, 2001.
* "Cast on the Lord" 1996.
* "Hymn: Every Kindred, Tongue, and People" 1996.
* "Conversion: Poems of the Religious Life", 1963-1994.
* "Death is the Frame of Love" 1988.
* "Before a Journey" 1987.
* "Snowdrops at Ditchly Park" 1987.
* "Isis Egypt-Bound" 1986.
* "Nature and the Bourgeois Poet: A Poem" 1986.
* "Entitlement, a poem" 1985.
* "President Kimball at Mestre, a poem" 1985.
* "Epithalamion" 1978.
* "Beyond our Works and Days" 1977.
* "Be Still" 1976.
* "Hebrews 11: Strangers and Pilgrims" 1976.
* "Is It the Tree?" 1974.
* "On This Gray and Silver Day" 1974.
* "September the First" 1969 and 1974.
* "They Seek a Country" 1974.
* "Three Poems" 1974.
* "First Snow" 1973.
* "A Prophet is Dead; A Prophet Lives" 1973.
* "September on Campus" 1973.
* "I Will Make Thee a Terror to Thyself" 1972.
* "Latter Days (Monday, Aug. 4, 1969)" 1971.
* "Winter Solstice" 1971.
* "Hot Weather in Tucson" 1969.
* "The Right Size" 1969.
* "Visit to a Cathedral After a Trip Around the World" 1969.

Essays and Criticism

* "Arm the Children: Faith’s Response to a Violent World" with C. Terry Warner, 1998.
* "Joseph Smith as a Writer" 1986.
* "The Abundance of the Heart" 1986.
* "The Child Is Father of the Man" 1976.
* "Final Address to the British Council" 1975.
* "Some Notes on Art and Morality" 1970.

External links

* [http://library.lds.org/nxt/gateway.dll/Magazines/Ensign/1976.htm/ensign%20january%201976.htm/poetry.htm?fn=document-frameset.htm$f=templates$3.0 "Hebrews 11: Strangers and Pilgrims" Ensign, 1976.]