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Rex Warner (March 9, 1905 - June 24, 1986) was an English classicist, writer and translator. Events 590 - Bahram Chobin is crowned as king Barham VI of Persia. Year 1905 ( MCMV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 972 - Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces takes place Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland "Classical literature" redirects here For literature in Classical languages outside the Graeco-Roman sphere see Ancient literature. A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms Translation is the interpreting of the meaning of a text and the subsequent production of an equivalent text likewise called a " translation He is now probably best remembered for The Aerodrome (1941), an allegorical novel whose young hero is faced with the disintegration of his certainties about his loved ones and with a choice between the earthy, animalistic life of his home village and the pure, efficient, emotionally detached life of an airman. An allegory (from αλλος allos "other" and el αγορευειν agoreuein "to speak in public" is a figurative mode of representation A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story

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He was born Reginald Ernest Warner in Birmingham, England and brought up mainly in Gloucestershire, where his father was a clergyman. Birmingham ( ˈbɜːmɪŋəm Ber -ming-um History See also History of Gloucestershire Gloucestershire is a historic county mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the 10th century He was educated at St. George’s School in Harpenden, and at Wadham College, Oxford, where he associated with W. H. Auden and Cecil Day Lewis, and published in Oxford Poetry. Harpenden is a town in the City and District of St Albans of Hertfordshire in the South East of England. Wadham College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, located at the southern end of Parks Road Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973 ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən who signed his works W Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) CBE ( 27 April 1904 &ndash 22 May 1972) was an Irish -born Poet After graduating in 1928, he spent time teaching, some of it in Egypt. This article is about the country of Egypt For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Egypt topics. His first collection, Poems, appeared in 1937. He was a contributor to Left Review, and his first novel, The Wild Goose Chase, is in part a dystopian fantasy of a tyrannical government which is overthrown in a heroic revolution. A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος alternatively cacotopia, kakotopia, cackotopia, or anti-utopia) is the vision of a society His second novel, The Professor, published around the time of the Nazi Anschluss, is the story of a liberal academic whose compromises with a repressive government lead eventually to his arrest, imprisonment and execution "while attempting to escape"; contemporary reviewers saw parallels with the Austrian leaders Engelbert Dollfuss and Kurt Schuschnigg. Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German The ( German: "link-up" also known as the, was the 1938 Annexation of Austria into Greater Germany by the Nazi Liberalism is a broad array of related ideas and theories of Government that consider individual Liberty to be the most important political goal Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich Kurt Alois Josef Johann Schuschnigg ( December 14, 1897 - November 18, 1977) was an Austrian Politician who in 1934 succeeded the assassinated After Why Was I Killed? (1943), Warner abandoned contemporary allegory in favour of historical novels about Ancient Greece and Rome including Imperial Caesar for which he was awarded the 1960 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Historical fiction is a sub-genre of Fiction that often portrays alternate accounts or dramatization of historical figures or events The term ancient Greece refers to the period of Greek history lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca Ancient Rome was a Civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC Founded in 1919 the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are among the oldest and most prestigious book prizes awarded for literature written in the English Language and are Britain's

From 1945 to 1947 he was in Athens as Director of the British Institute. Athens (ˈæθənz Αθήνα Athina,) the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery as one of the world's At that time he was involved in numerous translations of classical Greek authors. He also translated George Seferis (Poems of George Seferis,1960). Giorgos Seferis (Γιώργος Σεφέρης ( March 13, 1900, or February 29 according to the Julian calendar then in use September 20

Later he was Tallman Professor of Classics at Bowdoin College (1961) and then professor at the University of Connecticut from 1962 for eleven years. Bowdoin College, founded in 1794 is a private liberal arts college located in the coastal New England town of Brunswick, Maine. The University of Connecticut ( Connecticut or UConn) is the State of Connecticut 's Land-grant university. He died in Wallingford, Oxfordshire. Wallingford is a small Market town and Civil parish in the upper Thames Valley in Oxfordshire, England. History See also History of Oxfordshire The county of Oxfordshire was formed in the early years of the 10th century and is broadly situated in the

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In 1983 the BBC screened an adaptation of The Aerodrome. Thucydides ( C 460 BC &ndash C 395 BC) ( Greek Θουκυδίδης Thoukydídēs) was a Greek Xenophon (Ancient Greek, Modern Greek "Ξενοφών" "Ξενοφώντας" ca Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus ( Greek: Μέστριος Πλούταρχος c Euripides ( Ancient Greek:) (ca 480 BC–406 BC was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens (the other two being Aeschylus It was written by Robin Chapman and directed by Giles Foster. Robin Chapman is a British Writer and Actor, chiefly known for his television work The cast included Peter Firth as Roy, the protagonist; Richard Briers as the Rector; and Jill Bennett as Eustasia. Peter Firth (born 27 October, 1953) is an English Actor. He is well known for a variety of starring roles in Film and on Television Richard David Briers, CBE (born 14 January 1934 is an English Actor whose career has encompassed the theatre television film and radio Jill Bennett may refer to Jill Bennett (British actress (1931 - 1990 Jill Bennett (American actress (1975 -)

Entry on The Aerodrome at the Internet Movie Database

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