Arthur Boyars (28 May 1925 – 6 August 2017)Nicholas Jacobs

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'', 14 August 2017. was a British

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and

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, who was also a translator and critic, literary editor and publisher. His ''Poems'' were published in 1944 by

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. He started the

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''Mandrake'' in 1946 with

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while at

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, subtitled "An Oxford Review"; it was published until 1957. Boyars was editor of ''

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'' in 1948. He is known also as a translator of Russian poetry. He became the second husband of Marion Lobbenberg, who formed a partnership with

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in the publishing house Calder & Boyars. Boyars's name is associated with the Russian poet

Yevgeny Yevtushenko Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko ( rus, links=no, 1=Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Евтуше́нко; 18 July 1933 – 1 April 2017) was a Soviet and Russian poet. He was also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, ...

. In 2011 Boyars published a limited edition of his own poetry, ''Dictations: Selected Poems 1940–2009'', which was described by the critic

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as "Dantesque".

Works

*(ed. with Barry Hamer), ''Oxford Poetry 1948'', Oxford: Blackwell, 1948 *(trans. with David Burg)

Yuli Daniel Yuli Markovich Daniel ( rus, Ю́лий Ма́ркович Даниэ́ль, p=ˈjʉlʲɪj ˈmarkəvʲɪtɕ dənʲɪˈelʲ, a=Yuliy Markovich Daniel'.ru.vorb.oga; 15 November 1925 — 30 December 1988) was a Russian writer and Soviet dissident k ...

, ''Prison Poems'', 1971 *(trans. with

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)

, ''The Face Behind the Face'', 1979 *''Dictations: Selected Poems 1940–2009'', Lexington: The Philidor Company, 2011

References

External links

www.arthurboyars.com contains some of Arthur Boyars' early poetry.
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Boyars, Arthur 1925 births 2017 deaths 20th-century British poets 20th-century translators Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford British male poets British poets Russian–English translators