Patric Thomas Dickinson (26 December 1914 – 28 January 1994) was a British poet, translator from the Greek and Latin classics, and playwright. He also worked for the

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, from 1942 to 1948. His verse play ''Theseus and the Minotaur'' was broadcast by the BBC in July 1945 and published by Jonathan Cape the following year, along with a selection of his poems. He wrote full-time from 1948 and edited (with Sheila Shannon) Personal Portraits, a series of short biographies published by Max Parrish Ltd. and Adprint, London. He was born in Nasirabad,

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. He studied at

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. An autobiography ''The Good Minute'' was published in 1965. He received the

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in 1973. Poetry books published include the following, all in the

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series: *''The World I See'' (1960) *''This Cold Universe'' (1964) *''More than Time'' (1970) *''A Wintering Tree'' (1973) *''The Bearing Beast'' (1976) *''Our Living John'' (1979) *''A Rift in Time'' (1982)

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Patric Dickinson Papers
at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dickinson, Patric 1914 births 1994 deaths Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge 20th-century British poets British male poets 20th-century British male writers

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