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A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985
Butler, Guy
Biography
South Africa
Birth date: 1918-01-21
Birth location:
Cradock,
South Africa
Death date: 2001-04-26
Guy Butler, born in South Africa in 1918, worked as the head of the English department at Rhodes University in Grahamstown until 1978. Butler edited the magazine of contemporary poetry "New Coin." He was also a renowned playwright.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Guy-Butler
Education
- Oxford University
News Items (7)
- Poets from Abroad (1958-06-13) | Poet
- Publishers are defined by their authors (1983-09-16) | Poet
- From veld-lovers to freedom fighters (1980-11-21) | Poet
- Voices from South Africa (1949-07-01) | Poet
- Power of the Pen in Exile: The Times Profile, Breyten Breytenbach (1984-04-26) | Mentioned Poet
- A New Look in Writing (1960-05-31) | Poet
- South African Verse (1980-12-12) | Critic
Events (1)
Related Works (13)
- Poets in South Africa: An Anthology (1958) (Poet)
- A Book of African Verse, selected and introduced by Guy Butler (1959) (Poet)
- South African Poetry. A New Anthology, with a Foreword by Roy Campbell (1948) (Poet)
- Stranger to Europe: Poems 1939 to 1949 (1952) (Poet)
- Stranger to Europe: Poems 1939 to 1949 (1952) (Work Author)
- Selected Poems (1989) (Poet)
- Selected Poems (1989) (Work Author)
- Songs and Ballads (1978) (Poet)
- Songs and Ballads (1978) (Work Author)
- A Book of South African Verse (1968) (Poet)
- A Book of South African Verse (1968) (Author)
- Guy Butler: Collected Poems (1999) (Poet)
- Guy Butler: Collected Poems (1999) (Work Author)
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