RC Trevelyan

Robert Calverl (e) y Trevelyan (born June 28, 1872 in Weybridge , † March 21, 1951 in Dorking , Surrey ) was a writer and translator .

Life

Trevelyan was the second son of George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet and his wife Caroline, née Philips, daughter of the textile manufacturer and MP Robert Needham Philips . He went to Harrow School and studied Ancient Languages and Law at Trinity College , Cambridge , because his father wanted him to follow him in the legal profession. But Robert Trevelyan wanted to be a poet and his first volume of poems Mallow and Asphodel was published in 1898. His verse drama The Bride of Dionysus , published in 1912, was designed as an opera by Donald Tovey . Edward Marsh took a poem by him in his collection Georgian Poetry 1911-1912. Trevelyan published translations by Greek and Latin authors.

Trevelyan had a large circle of friends, he had loose connections with the Bloomsbury circle , he was acquainted with Isaac Rosenberg and traveled to India with EM Forster in 1912 . He was a convinced pacifist and hid the conscientious objector John Rodker in the First World War .

literature

Trevelyan, Robert Calverley . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume 6 : Square – Zupitza . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1954, pp. 229 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

^ Robert Calverley Trevelyan: Dirge . In: Edward Howard Marsh (Ed.): Georgian poetry, 1911–1912 . The Poetry Bookshop, London 1920, p. 193 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - Poem).

personal data
SURNAME	Trevelyan, RC
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Trevelyan, Robert Calverley (full name); Trevelyan, Robert Calverly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	June 28, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH	Weybridge
DATE OF DEATH	March 21, 1951
Place of death	Dorking , Surrey

[1] Robert Calverley Trevelyan: Dirge . In: Edward Howard Marsh (Ed.): Georgian poetry, 1911–1912 . The Poetry Bookshop, London 1920, p. 193 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - Poem).