James Kirkup
James Falconer Kirkup , FRSL (born April 23, 1918 in City of Sunderland - † May 10, 2009 ) was a British poet .
biography
After attending school in South Shields , he studied literature at the University of Durham , and was after completing his studies at several universities in England , Sweden , Japan and Malaysia as a lecturer operates.
His teaching activity as a professor of English followed the following positions: from 1957 to 1958 taught at the University of Salamanca , until 1961 at the University of Tōhoku , until 1962 at the University of Malaya , then after a short time from 1963 to 1964 as an editor at the Tokyo magazine Orient / West Magazine, then Nihon Joshi Daigaku until 1968 , Visiting Professor at Amherst College until 1969, at Nagoya University until 1972 , Arts Council Fellowship from 1974 to 1975 at the University of Sheffield , until 1976 Morton Visiting Professor of International Literature at Ohio University and then from 1977 to 1989 at the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies .
In 1977 he accepted a position as professor of English literature at the University of Kyoto .
His poetry collections appeared in 1952 under the title "A Correct Compassion" and in 1978 under the title " Zen Contemplations".
His poem "The Love that dares to speak its name" from the year 1977, after its publication in the newspaper "Gay News" the subject of a criminal complaint for blasphemy , the first in the UK since the 1920 's. He was accused of blasphemously depicting the love and sexual desire of a Roman centurion for the crucified Jesus of Nazareth in his poem .
In addition to his poems, he has published several dramas and translations. One of his most important translations is "The Physicists" based on the drama Die Physiker by Friedrich Dürrenmatt , which premiered in a production by Peter Brook at the Aldrych Theater of the Royal Shakespeare Company on January 9, 1963 and was a great stage success. His drama "An actor's revenge" (The revenge of an actor) was translated into German in 1989 by Claus H. Henneberg . In 1997 he also wrote the obituary for the co-founder of Sony Masaru Ibuka in the daily newspaper " The Independent ".
He also wrote a five-volume autobiography entitled:
- The Only Child , 1957
- Sorrows, Passions and Alarms , 1987
- I, of All People , 1990
- A Poet Could Not But be Gay , 1991
- Me All Over , 1993
For his literary services he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1962 .
source
- Chambers Biographical Dictionary . Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2 , p. 857.
Web links
- Literature by and about James Kirkup in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Alan Ireland: James Kirkup. Retrieved July 19, 2012 .
- ↑ "The Love that dares to speak its name" (poem text)
- ↑ PINK NEWS: "The gay poem that broke blasphemy laws" (January 10, 2008)
- ^ Gerhard P. Knapp: Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Die Physiker. Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1997, p. 41, ISBN 3-425-06079-1
- ↑ THE INDEPENDENT: "Obituary: Masaru Ibuka" (December 22, 1997)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kirkup, James |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kirkup, James Falconer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British poet, playwright, translator and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | City of Sunderland |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 10, 2009 |