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About Wilfrid Thorley
- Wilfrid Charles Thorley (31 July 1878 in Southport, Lancashire – 28 January 1963 in Wirral, Cheshire) was an English poet and translator. Thorley was the son of a well-to-do retired draper and magistrate, and his young wife.
- He was twice married, first to Katherine E Dunn in 1914, and after her death in 1925, second to Gertrude M Neville in 1937.He was educated privately, then at the Liverpool Institute (and possibly the University of Liverpool) and Grenoble University.
- However, he said that he learnt most while teaching English to foreign students in Sweden, Belgium, France and Italy, during the ten years preceding World War I. His best-known poem is "Chant for Reapers", due to its inclusion in the Oxford Book of English Verse (THIS REFERENCE IS INOPERATIVE) http://www.publicappeal.org/library/dps/obev/obev311.html].
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