Vivian de Sola Pinto (9 December 1895 – 27 July 1969) was a British poet, literary critic and historian. He was a leading scholarly authority on D. H. Lawrence, and appeared for the defence (

Penguin Books Penguin Books is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.Lady Chatterley's Lover'' trial. Pinto was born and grew up in Hampstead. He became a close friend of Siegfried Sassoon, having fought in

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alongside him, as his second-in-command, in France. He appears in the ' Sherston' books ('' Memoirs of an Infantry Officer'' etc.), Sassoon's fictionalised biography, under the pseudonym of "Velmore". Jean Moorcroft Wilson, ''Siegfried Sassoon: a Biography. Vol 2 - The Journey from the Trenches'' (Duckworth), page 296 After the war he was at the

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. Later he was Professor in the Department of English at the

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, from 1938 until 1961. He is also known as the translator of

France Prešeren France Prešeren () (2 or 3 December 1800 – 8 February 1849) was a 19th-century Romantic Slovene poet whose poems have been translated into many languages.

's poetry into the

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. He was the great-grandson of Rabbi David Aaron de Sola.

Works

*''Works of Sir Charles Sedley, with a Study of Sedley'' (1928) *''The Tree of Life: An Anthology'' (1929), editor with George Neill Wright *''Peter Sterry: Platonist and Puritan, 1613-1672'' (1934) *''The Invisible Sun'' - poems *''Crisis in English Poetry: 1880-1940'' *''The Common Muse: An Anthology of Popular British Ballad Poetry 15th-20th Century'', editor with Allan Edwin Rodway *''Restoration Carnival: Five courtier poets: Rochester, Dorset, Sedley, Etherege & Sheffield'' (1954) *''Reginald Mainwaring Hewitt: A Selection from his Literary Remains'' (1955) *''The Divine Vision: Studies in the Poetry and Art of William Blake'' (1957) editor *''Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrenc''e (1964), editor with F. Warren Roberts *''Bulgarian Prose and Verse'' (1957) *''Enthusiast in Wit: A Portrait of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 1647-1680'' (1962) *''The Restoration Court Poets: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester; Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset; Sir Charles Sedley; Sir George Etheredge'' (1965) *''The English Renaissance 1510-1680''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pinto, Vivian 1895 births 1969 deaths Academics of the University of Nottingham British World War I poets 20th-century male writers English Sephardi Jews Jewish poets People educated at University College School 19th-century Sephardi Jews 20th-century Sephardi Jews Spanish and Portuguese Jews