- R. C. Trevelyan
Robert Calverl(e)y Trevelyan (1872 – 1951) was an English poet and translator, of a traditionalist sort, and a follower of the lapidary style of
Logan Pearsall Smith .Life
Trevelyan was born in
Weybridge . He was atTrinity College, Cambridge from 1891 to 1895, being one of theCambridge Apostles . He studied classics and then law; his father wanted him to follow a career asbarrister , but his ambition was to be a poet. [William C. Lubenow, "The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life" (1998), p. 178.]Described as a "rumpled, eccentric poet", and sometimes considered a rather ineffectual person, he was close to the
Bloomsbury Group , who called him 'Bob Trevy'. [Nicola Beauman, "Morgan: A biography of E. M. Forster" (1993), p. 116.] He had a wide further range of social connections:George Santayana from 1905; [John McCormick, "George Santayana: A Biography" (2003), p. 114.]Isaac Rosenberg ; [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/rose/life.html] [Vivien Noakes, "The Poems and Plays of Isaac Rosenberg: A Critical Edition" (2004), p. xliv.]Bernard Berenson ;G. E. Moore ;E. M. Forster with whom andGoldsworthy Lowes Dickinson he travelled toIndia in 1912. [E. M. Forster, "Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson" (1962 edition), p. 135.] Hispacifist principles extended to shelteringJohn Rodker duringWorld War I .Works
He wrote a number of
verse play s; "The Bridge of Dionysus" (1912) was made into an opera bySir Donald Tovey .Family
He was the second son of
Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet , and brother ofSir Charles Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet , and the historianG. M. Trevelyan .He married the Dutch musician Elizabeth van der Hoeven; the artist
Julian Trevelyan was their son.Works
*Mallow and Asphodel (1898) poems
*Polyphemus and Other Poems (1901)
*Sisyphus: An Operatic Fable. (1908)
*The Bride of Dionysus a music-Drama and Other Poems (1912)
*The New Parsifal: An Operatic Fable (1914)
*The Foolishness of Solomon (1915)
*The Pterodamozels: An Operatic Fable. (1916)
*The Death of Man (1919) poems
*Translations from Lucretius (1920)
*The Oresteia of Aeschylus (1922) translator
*The Antigone of Sophocles (1924) translator
*The Ajax of Sophocles
*The Idylls of Theocritus (1925) translator
*Poems and Fables (Hogarth Press , 1925)
*Thamyris: Is There a Future for Poetry? (1925) polemic
*The Deluge & Other Poems (Hogarth Press, 1926)
*Meleager (Hogarth Press, 1927)
*Three Plays: Sulla - Fand - The Pearl Tree (Hogarth Press, 1931)
*Rimeless Numbers (Hogarth Press, 1932)
*Selected Poems (1934)
*Beelzebub (Hogarth Press, 1935)
*De Rerum Naturum by Lucretius (1937) translator
*The Collected Works of R. C. Trevelyan (1939) two volumes
*Aftermath (Hogarth Press, 1941)
*Translations from Leopardi (1941)
*Translations from Horace, Juvenal, & Montaigne. With Two Imaginary Conversations (1941)
*The Eclogues and the Georgics of Virgil (1944) translator
*Windfalls: Notes & Essays (1944)
*From the Chinese (1945) translator
*Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus (1946) translator
*From the Shiffolds (Hogarth Press, 1947)
*Translations from Latin Poetry (1949)
*Translations from Greek Poetry (1950)Notes
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