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Ronald Bottrall

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(Francis James) Ronald Bottrall OBE, (2 September 1906, Camborne, Cornwall – 25 June 1989) was a Cornish poet. He was praised highly by F.R. Leavis, Anthony Burgess and Martin Seymour-Smith, and deprecated by Ian Hamilton and Martin Amis.

Bottrall was educated at Redruth Grammar School and at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Career

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Honours and awards

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  • OBE, 1949.
  • Coronation Medal, 1953
  • Syracuse International Poetry Prize, 1954
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, 1955
  • Knight of St. John, 1972
  • Grande Ufficiale dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, 1973
  • Knight Commander, Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Malta, 1977

Personal life

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He was the father of Anthony Bottrall, the diplomat, expert in developmental agriculture and politician.[1]

Publications

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Poetry

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  • The Loosening and other Poems, 1931
  • Festivals of Fire, 1934
  • The Turning Path, 1939
  • Farewell and Welcome, 1945
  • Selected Poems, 1946
  • The Palisades of Fear, 1949
  • Adam Unparadised, 1954
  • Collected Poems, 1961
  • Day and Night, 1974
  • Poems 1955–73, 1974
  • Reflections on the Nile, 1980
  • Against a Setting Sun, 1983

Other

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  • (with Gunnar Ekelöf) T.S. Eliot: Dikter i Urval, 1942
  • (with Margaret Bottrall) The Zephyr Book of English Verse, 1945
  • (with Margaret Bottrall) Collected English Verse, 1946
  • Rome (Art Centres of the World), 1968.

References

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  1. ^ "Anthony Bottrall: Diplomat and agricultural expert for developing". Independent.co.uk. 12 March 2015.