Arthur Boyars Explained

Arthur Boyars (28 May 1925  - 6 August 2017)^[1] was a British poet and musicologist, who was also a translator and critic, literary editor and publisher.

His Poems were published in 1944 by Fortune Press. He started the small magazine Mandrake in 1946 with John Wain while at Wadham College, Oxford,^[2] subtitled "An Oxford Review";^[3] it was published until 1957.^[4] Boyars was editor of Oxford Poetry in 1948.^[5] He is known also as a translator of Russian poetry. He became the second husband of Marion Lobbenberg, who formed a partnership with John Calder in the publishing house Calder & Boyars. Boyars's name is associated with the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko.^[6] In 2011 Boyars published a limited edition of his own poetry, Dictations: Selected Poems 1940–2009, which was described by the critic Alberto Manguel as "Dantesque".

Works

• (ed. with Barry Hamer), Oxford Poetry 1948, Oxford: Blackwell, 1948
• (trans. with David Burg) Yuli Daniel, Prison Poems, 1971
• (trans. with Simon Franklin) Yevgeny Yevtushenko, The Face Behind the Face, 1979
• Dictations: Selected Poems 1940–2009, Lexington: The Philidor Company, 2011

External links

• www.arthurboyars.com contains some of Arthur Boyars' early poetry.
• Web site: Transcript of poem, 'Funeral' . Boyars, Arthur . The Kenyon Review: The International Journal of Literature, Culture and the Arts . The National Endowment for the Arts . 12 December 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080515222958/http://www.kenyonreview.org/issues/archives/boyarsSu1949.php . 15 May 2008 .

Notes and References

1. Nicholas Jacobs, "Arthur Boyars, gifted poet and publisher with a passion for music", The Independent, 14 August 2017.
2. Book: Empson. William. William Empson. John Haffenden. John Haffenden. Selected letters of William Empson. registration. 12 December 2010. 2006. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-928684-3. 276.
3. Web site: One Autograph Letter Signed and one Typed Letter Signed to Michael Fraenkel. Ford. Dr. Richard. Object description. Richard Ford. 12 December 2010.
4. Late Gifts. PN Review 207. 39. 1. September–October 2012.
5. Web site: History of the Magazine . Oxford Poetry . Magdalen College, Oxford . 12 December 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111005150735/http://www.oxfordpoetry.co.uk/history.php?contrib=b . 5 October 2011 .
6. Web site: The Solitary Walker: The Day I Met Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Blogger. 19 April 2010. 12 December 2010.