| 词条 | Paul Potts (writer) |
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Born in Datchet, Berkshire[4] to (Arthur George) Howard Potts (1869-1918), who had emigrated to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where he was a partner in a bakery and confectionery business,[5] and his Irish wife Julia Helen Kavanagh (also recorded as Cavanagh),[6] Potts was educated in Canada, England (at Stonyhurst until the age of sixteen[7]) and Italy (at a Jesuit college in Florence),[8] but from the early 1930s he lived in London. He frequented the Soho-Fitzrovia area where he would sell broadsheet copies of his poetry in the streets and pubs.[9][10] Arthur Potts's father, Dr Walter Jeffery Potts (1837-1898),[11] had married Julia, daughter of Sir Thomas Branthwaite Beevor, 3rd Baronet;[12] many descendants with the name 'Beevor-Potts' live in Canada.[13][14][15] Among Potts's literary friends were George Orwell and the English poet George Barker.[16][17][18] Potts's memoir of Orwell, "Don Quixote on a Bicycle", appeared in The London Magazine in 1957[19][20] and became a chapter of Dante Called You Beatrice. His 1948 essay “The World of George Barker” appeared in Poetry Quarterly.[21] In late middle-age, Potts was '...balding' with 'a stutter that he mixed with rapid blinking and an amused chuckle as he started a sentence', eventually becoming a dissolute figure 'barred from Soho pubs'.[22] Potts died in 1990 of smoke inhalation from a fire in his bedroom; he had been house-bound for some years.[23] Bibliography
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Notes and references1. ^Paul Potts, Dante Called You Beatrice, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1960 2. ^Potts is often called a Canadian, for example by Ronald Caplan in George Orwell's Friend which has him "born in British Columbia", but other sources - including the Times obituary - give his birthplace as Datchet in the UK. 3. ^Paul Potts, Dante Called You Beatrice, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1960 4. ^Datchet was at that time in Buckinghamshire 5. ^British Columbia Gazette, 1909, pg 3070 6. ^Paul Potts, Dante Called You Beatrice, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1960 7. ^Dante Called You Beatrice, Paul Potts, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1960, pg 25 8. ^The Visva-bharati Quarterly, volume 31, issue 2, 1965, pg 131 9. ^"Paul Potts - Obituary", The Times, London, 29 August 1990 10. ^Peter Stothard, "Soho, ring-marked and a little soiled", TLS blog, 2 March 2008, retrieved 7 February 2013 11. ^Imperial Vancouver Island: Who Was Who, 1850-1950, J. F. Bosher, 2010, pg 134 12. ^A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, Sir Bernard Burke, 31st Edition, volume 1, 1869, pg 88 13. ^Imperial Vancouver Island: Who Was Who, 1850-1950, J. F. Bosher, 2010, pg 135 14. ^Dante Called You Beatrice, Paul Potts, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1960, pg 28 15. ^The Tormented Prince, J. Leigh Hirst, Brimstone Press, 2012, pg 1 16. ^Taylor, D. J., Orwell: The Life, Henry Holt and Company, 2003, passim 17. ^Meyers, Jeffrey (ed.), Introduction to George Orwell, Routledge, 1975, p.20 18. ^Crick, Bernard. George Orwell: A Life, Penguin, 1982, passim 19. ^Rodden, John, George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation, Oxford University Press, 1989, rev. 2002, pp 128-129 20. ^Rodden, John, The Unexamined Orwell, University of Texas Press, 2011, p.222 21. ^Warren, Richard, "Paul Potts on ‘The World of George Barker’", nd, blog post; retrieved 12 February 2013 22. ^The Arms of the Infinite: Elizabeth Smart and George Barker, Christopher Barker, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010, pg 181 23. ^The Arms of the Infinite: Elizabeth Smart and George Barker, Christopher Barker, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010, pg 181 Further reading
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