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Clive Wilmer

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Clive Wilmer

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1945-02-10 （Harrogate, Yorkshire, England）
Died
2025-03-13 （Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England） age 80
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Residence History
South London → Cambridge → Florence → Verona → Padua → Venice

Career

Occupations
Poet, critic, literary journalist, broadcaster, lecturer
Active Years
1977-2025
Affiliations
Sidney Sussex College, Emeritus Fellow, Anglia Ruskin University, Honorary Fellow, William Morris Gallery, Honorary Patron
Memberships
Guild of St George, Companion
Influenced By
John Ruskin, William Morris
Influenced
Thom Gunn, Donald Davie

Education

Emanuel School
English
Country: United Kingdom
King's College, Cambridge
English
Country: United Kingdom
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Awards

Endre Ady Memorial Medal
1998
Organization: Hungarian PEN Club
Result: 受賞
Pro Cultura Hungarica medal
2005
Organization: Hungarian Ministry of Culture
Result: 受賞
Janus Pannonius Prize
2018
Category: 翻訳功労賞
Result: 受賞
Lifetime Achievement Award
2023
Organization: Ruskin Society of North America
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Mystery of Things

2006 Poetry

Collection of poems

religionarchitecturevisual culture

New & Collected Poems

2012 Poetry

New and collected poems

religionarchitecturevisual culture

The Falls

2000 Poetry

Poems

religionarchitecture

Bibliography

  • The Dwelling-Place (1977)
  • Devotions (1982)
  • Of Earthly Paradise (1992)
  • Selected Poems (1995)
  • The Falls (2000)
  • The Mystery of Things (2006)
  • New & Collected Poems (2012)

Translations by Author

  • Miklós Radnóti, Forced March: Selected Poems (1979, with George Gömöri)
  • György Petri, Night Song of the Personal Shadow (1991, with George Gömöri)

Translations of Works

  • Numerous translations into Hungarian, Italian, Spanish

Style & Themes

Literary Style
formal verseoccasionally experimentalreligious undertones
Recurring Motifs
religionarchitecturevisual cultureJohn RuskinWilliam Morris

Health

  • stroke
    2025年3月
    cause of death

Legacy

British poet, critic, and scholar of John Ruskin and William Morris. Awarded for lifetime achievement in translating Hungarian poetry.

In Popular Culture

  • Prime mover of Ezra Pound centenary exhibition

Trivia

  • Sister is writer and photographer Val Wilmer
  • Collaborated extensively with Hungarian poet George Gömöri
  • Personal friend of Thom Gunn