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Place of Birth: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
About Bernard Spencer
- Charles Bernard Spencer (1909 – 1963) was an English poet, translator, and editor. He was born in Madras, India and educated at Marlborough College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
- At Marlborough he knew John Betjeman and Louis MacNeice; at Oxford Stephen Spender, and he also came across W.
- H.
- Auden.
- He edited Oxford Poetry in 1930-1931.
- He was not, however, drawn far into what was soon known as the Auden Group; he is identified much more with the type of poetry later exemplified by Lawrence Durrell, and is for some critics the stand-out in the Cairo poets.
- His potential was never quite fulfilled, partly because of poor health. After graduation, he made a living from teaching and writing, marrying the actress Norah Gibbs in 1936.
- At that time he was collaborating on Geoffrey Grigson's New Verse.
- In World War II he worked for the British Council, in Greece and then Egypt.
- There he edited the Personal Landscape magazine. After the war he continued to work for the British Council, being posted to Italy.
- Norah died in 1947, of tuberculosis.
- He himself was ill for a time.
- Through other postings he wrote little. He was married again in 1961, to Anne Marjoribanks.
- He died in Vienna, apparently in an accident, while once more in bad health. A conference on Spencer's life and work was held at the University of Reading in October 2009, with an exhibition of manuscripts and other personal effects.
- His Complete Poetry, Translations and Selected Prose edited by Peter Robinson was published by Bloodaxe Books in February 2011.
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