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词条 Alistair Elliot
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  1. Life

  2. Awards

  3. Works

     Poetry  Translation  Editor 

  4. References

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Alistair Elliot (13 October 1932 – 3 November 2018)[1] was a British librarian, poet and translator.

Life

He was born in Liverpool, son of a Scottish family doctor and an English mother, and educated at Asheville School, Asheville, North Carolina, Fettes College, Edinburgh, and Christ Church, Oxford.[2]

He was a vegetable invoice clerk in Covent Garden market, night sterilizer in a food factory, waiter, film critic, supply teacher, actor (with the English Children's Theatre under Caryl Jenner) and finally librarian in Kensington, Keele, Shiraz, and lastly at Newcastle University.[3]

His translation of Euripides's Medea was performed in theatres in London and New York in a production by Jonathan Kent with Diana Rigg in the leading rôle.

His poems have appeared in Oxford Poetry,[4] The Paris Review,[5] and many other journals.

Awards

  • 2000 Cholmondeley Award

Works

Poetry

  • {{cite book| title=My country: collected poems| publisher=Carcanet| year=1989| isbn=978-0-85635-846-3 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Turning the Stones | publisher=Carcanet| year=1993| isbn=978-1-85754-041-3 }}
  • {{cite book| title=The Real Poems| publisher=Shoestring Press| year=2008|

isbn=978-1-904886-71-6 }}

  • {{cite book| title=Facing Things| publisher=Carcanet| year=1997| isbn=978-1-85754-304-9 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Imaginary Lines| publisher=Shoestring Press| year=2012| isbn=978-1-907356-56-8 }}
  • On the Appian Way, 1984
  • Talking Back, 1982
  • {{cite book| title=Kisses: Poems| author=Alistair Elliot, Barry Hirst| publisher=Ceolfrith| year=1978| isbn=978-0-904461-42-8 }}
  • Contentions, 1977
  • Air in the Wrong Place, 1968
  • {{cite book| title=Telling the Stones| publisher=Shoestring Press| year=2017| isbn=978-1-910323-69-4 }}

Translation

  • {{cite book| title=Medea| author=Euripides| others=Translator Alistair Elliot| publisher=Oberon Books| year=1993 }}
  • {{cite book| title=The Lazarus poems| author=Heinrich Heine| others=Translator Alistair Elliot| publisher=Mid Northumberland Arts Group| year=1979 }}
  • {{cite book| title=The Georgics| author=Virgil, John Dryden| editor=Alistair Elliot| publisher=Mid Northumberland Arts Group| year=1981 |isbn=978-0-904790-13-9 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Women-Men| author=Paul Verlaine| others=Translator Alistair Elliot| publisher=The Sheep Meadow Press| year=1979| isbn=978-0-935296-44-0 }}
  • {{cite book| title=French Love Poems | publisher=Bloodaxe Books| year=1991| isbn=978-1-85224-169-8 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Italian Landscape Poems| publisher=Bloodaxe Books| year=1994| isbn=978-1-85224-247-3 }}
  • {{cite book| author=Paul Valéry| title=La Jeune Parque| publisher=Bloodaxe Books| others=Translator Alistair Elliot| year=1997| isbn=978-1-85224-387-6 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Roman food poems: a modern translation| others=Translator Alistair Elliot| publisher=Prospect Books| year=2003| isbn=978-1-903018-25-5 }}
  • {{cite book| author=Euripides| title=Phaethon, reconstructed from the fragments| publisher=Oberon Books| others=Translator Alistair Elliot| year=2008| isbn=978-1-84002-897-3 }}

Editor

  • {{cite book| title=Poems by James I and Others: from a Manuscript Miscellany in Newcastle University Library: | editor=Alistair Elliot| publisher=Eagle Press| year=1970| isbn=978-0-9500358-5-7 }}

References

1. ^[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/11/27/alistair-elliot-poet-translator-obituary/ "Alistair Elliot, poet best known for his translation of 'Medea' – obituary"]The Daily Telegraph, 27 November 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
2. ^{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xTG2qvxxYNsC|title = International Who's Who in Poetry 2004|last = Publications|first = Europa|date = 2003-01-01|publisher = Taylor & Francis|isbn = 9781857431780|language = en}}
3. ^{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LikqVP0wSvgC|title = Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology|last = Jayyusi|first = Salma Khadra|date = 1987-01-01|publisher = Columbia University Press|isbn = 9780231052733|language = en}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/oxpoetry/index/ie.html|title = gnelson.demon.co.uk|website = www.gnelson.demon.co.uk|access-date = 2016-04-11}}
5. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/30 |title=Archived copy |access-date=13 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709031443/http://www.theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/30 |archive-date=9 July 2009 |dead-url=yes |df=dmy-all }}
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6 : 1932 births|2018 deaths|Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford|British librarians|British male poets|People educated at Fettes College
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