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Forrest Reid

フォーレスト・リード

Foresuto Rīdo

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1875-06-24 (Belfast, Ireland)
死没
1947-01-04 (Warrenpoint, County Down, Northern Ireland) 71歳
国籍
Irish, Northern Irish
言語
English
宗教
Protestant
居住地歴
Belfast (1924-1947, 13 Ormiston Crescent) → Warrenpoint

経歴

職業
novelist, literary critic, translator
活動期間
1904年〜1947年
所属
Imperial Art League (later Artists League of Great Britain)
所属団体
Imperial Art League
影響を受けた人物
E. M. Forster, Walter de la Mare
影響を与えた人物
Stephen Gilbert

学歴

Royal Belfast Academical Institution
国: Ireland
Christ's College, Cambridge
medieval and modern languages
学位: BA
期間: 1905-1908
卒業年: 1908
国: United Kingdom

受賞歴

James Tait Black Memorial Prize
1944
対象作品: Young Tom
主催: University of Edinburgh
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Young Tom

1944年 novel

A novel of boyhood, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

boyhoodUlster

The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys

1905年 novel

A tale of two boys.

boyhoodmythology

Uncle Stephen

1931年 novel

Brian Westby

1934年 novel

全著作

  • The Kingdom of Twilight (1904)
  • The Garden God – A Tale of Two Boys (1905)
  • The Bracknels – A Family Chronicle (1911), revised as Denis Bracknel (1947)
  • Following Darkness (1912)
  • The Gentle Lover – A Comedy of Middle Age (1913)
  • At the Door of the Gate (1915)
  • The Spring Song (1916)
  • A Garden by the Sea (1918)
  • Pirates of the Spring (1919)
  • Pender among the Residents (1922)
  • Demophon – a Traveller's Tale (1927)
  • Uncle Stephen (1931)
  • Brian Westby (1934)
  • The Retreat (1936)
  • Peter Waring (1937)
  • Young Tom (1944)

作家による翻訳

  • Translations of poems from the Greek Anthology (Greek Authors, 1943)

作風・主題

文体
Stylish prose focused on boyhood
頻出モチーフ
boyhoodUlster settingsmythical elements

評価・遺産

A leading pre-war novelist of boyhood and acclaimed Ulster novelist, awarded the 1944 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

記念館・博物館

  • Ashmolean Museum Oxford

資料所蔵先

  • University of Exeter (Forrest Reid Collection)
  • Belfast Central Library
  • Queen's University Belfast

大衆文化への影響

  • Plaque in Belfast at 13 Ormiston Crescent

豆知識

  • Youngest of twelve in a Protestant family (six survived).
  • Mother's family related to Catherine Parr, last wife of Henry VIII.
  • Lifelong friend of E. M. Forster.