R. C. Trevelyan

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 at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1891 to 1895, being one of the Cambridge Apostles. He studied classics and then law; his father wanted him to follow a career as barrister, 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 and Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson he travelled to India in 1912. [E. M. Forster, "Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson" (1962 edition), p. 135.] His pacifist principles extended to sheltering John Rodker during World War I.

Works

He wrote a number of verse plays; "The Bridge of Dionysus" (1912) was made into an opera by Sir Donald Tovey.

Family

He was the second son of Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, and brother of Sir Charles Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet, and the historian G. 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)

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