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Terence Tiller

テレンス・ティラー

Terensu Tirā

Aliases: Terence Rogers Tiller

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1916-09-19 （Truro）
Died
1987-12-24 （Unknown） age 71
Nationality
English
Languages
English
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
Truro, Cornwall → Hammersmith → Cambridge → Cairo

Career

Occupations
poet, radio producer, lecturer
Active Years
1937-1987
Affiliations
BBC Features Department, BBC Drama Department
Influenced By
Wilfred Owen
Influenced
Keith Douglas, Lawrence Durrell

Education

Latymer Upper School
Unknown
Country: United Kingdom
Jesus College, Cambridge
History
Degree: BA
Period: 1934-1937
Year of Graduation: 1937
Country: United Kingdom
starred first-class

Awards

Chancellor's Gold Medal
1937
Category: English Verse
Organization: University of Cambridge
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Unarm, Eros

1947 Poetry

Poems with strong formal pattern, heraldic imagery, and striking sensuousness

warEgyptlove

Poems

1941 Poetry

Enigmatic poems about wartime Egypt

war

The Inward Animal

1943 Poetry

Bibliography

  • Poems (1941)
  • The Inward Animal (1943)
  • Unarm, Eros (1947)
  • Reading a Medal, and other poems (1957)
  • Notes for a Myth (1968)
  • That Singing Mesh, and other poems (1979)
  • Collected Poems (2016)

Translations by Author

  • The Vision of Piers Plowman (translated from Middle English)
  • Translation of Dante
  • John Gower Confessio Amantis: The Lover's Shrift

Style & Themes

Literary Style
strong formal patternheraldic imagerystriking sensuousness
Recurring Motifs
darkness of warpast love

Legacy

English poet and BBC radio producer associated with the Cairo poets, known for formal poetry and radio adaptations

In Popular Culture

  • Produced the first BBC radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings

Trivia

  • Known as a Fitzrovian