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Terence Rogers Tiller (19 September 1916 – 24 December 1987) was an English poet and radio producer.


Early life, poet

Tiller was born in
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and educated at
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in Hammersmith.Obituary, ''The Times'', 5 January 1988, p 14 He studied history at
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, where he graduated with a starred first-class BA degree in 1937 and won the Chancellor's Medal for English Verse. He then lectured in medieval history at Cambridge from 1937 to 1939. But then, just before the war, he accepted an academic position in Cairo, where he remained stranded. For the next six years he taught English literature at what was then the King Fuad I University. While there he became associated with the Personal Landscape group of poets that also included
Keith Douglas Keith Castellain Douglas (24 January 1920 – 9 June 1944) was a poet and soldier noted for his war poetry during the Second World War and his wry memoir of the Western Desert campaign, '' Alamein to Zem Zem''. He was killed in action during ...
,
Lawrence Durrell Lawrence George Durrell (; 27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell. Born in India to British colonial pare ...
,
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and
Bernard Spencer Charles Bernard Spencer (1909 – 1963) was an English poet, translator, and editor. He was born in Madras, India and educated at Marlborough College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. At Marlborough he knew John Betjeman and Louis MacNeic ...
. His enigmatic poems about wartime Egypt, showing the influence of
Wilfred Owen Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced by ...
, gained attention through the publication of his ''Poems'' in 1941, followed by ''The Inward Animal'' in 1943. His most acclaimed poetry collection was ''Unarm, Eros'' (1947), containing poems of "strong formal pattern, heraldic imagery, and striking sensuousness"


BBC

In 1946 he joined the
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Features Department, where he was responsible for hundreds of plays and feature broadcasts on a wide range of subjects, but mainly on history, literature and mythology. His contemporaries in the department included fellow poets
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,
Louis MacNeice Frederick Louis MacNeice (12 September 1907 – 3 September 1963) was an Irish poet and playwright, and a member of the Auden Group, which also included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis. MacNeice's body of work was widely a ...
and W R Rodgers. During this period, Tiller became a noted Fitzrovian. He collaborated with the composer
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on features such as ''The Shepherds' Play'' (1947), ''The Death of Adam'' (1949), ''Lilith'' (1950), and ''The Holy Child'' (1952). In 1955 he was producer of the first BBC radio adaptation of
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's ''
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'' (which did not please the author). He adapted and modernized
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's ''The Parlement of Foules'' in 1958. In 1964 he moved to the Drama Department. His work on the weekly chess programme on the
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led to his book ''Chess Treasury of the Air'' in 1966. In 1969 he completed the posthumous story ''After Ten Years'' by
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for broadcast, and in 1973 he brought
Mervyn Peake Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the '' Gormenghast'' books. The four works were part of what Peake conceived ...
's ''The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb'' to the airwaves. Tiller retired from the BBC in 1976, but continued working on some projects. In 1979 he dramatized
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's novel ''The Defence''.


Bibliography

;Poetry * ''Poems'' (1941), Hogarth Press) *''The Inward Animal'' (1943) * ''Unarm, Eros'' (1947), *''Reading a Medal, and other poems'' (1957) *''Notes for a Myth'' (1968, Chatto & Windus) * ''That Singing Mesh, and other poems'' (1979) * ''Collected Poems'' (Eyewear Publishing, 2016)''The Collected Poems of Terence Tiller''
/ref> ;As editor, translator * ''The Vision of
Piers Plowman ''Piers Plowman'' (written 1370–86; possibly ) or ''Visio Willelmi de Petro Ploughman'' (''William's Vision of Piers Plowman'') is a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland. It is written in un-rhymed, alliterative v ...
''; translated from Middle English into Modern English verse *A translation of
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*''Chess Treasury of the Air'' (Penguin Handbooks; PH124; 1966), as editor *''New Poems 1960'', edited with
Anthony Cronin Anthony Gerard Richard Cronin (28 December 1923 – 27 December 2016) was an Irish poetry, Irish poet, arts activist, biographer, commentator, critic, editor and barrister. Early life and family Cronin was born in Enniscorthy, County Wexford on ...
and
Jon Silkin Jon Silkin (2 December 1930 – 25 November 1997) was a British poet. Early life Jon Silkin was born in London, in a Litvak Jewish family, his parents were Joseph Silkin and Doris Rubenstein. His grandparents were all from the Lithuanian- par ...
*John Gower ''
Confessio Amantis ''Confessio Amantis'' ("The Lover's Confession") is a 33,000-line Middle English poem by John Gower, which uses the confession made by an ageing lover to the chaplain of Venus as a frame story for a collection of shorter narrative poems. Accord ...
: 'The Lover's Shrift';'' translated from Middle English into Modern English verse. (Penguin Classic, 1965)


References

1916 births 1987 deaths Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge People from Truro 20th-century English poets {{UK-poet-stub