Timeline |
1895 |
Born 24 July in Wimbledon |
1913 |
Wins a scholarship to St. John's College, Oxford |
1914 |
Enlists as a junior officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers |
1916 |
Injured in the Somme offensive |
1917 |
Over the Brazier published |
1918 |
Fairies and Fusiliers published |
1918 |
Marries Nancy Nicholson |
1924 |
Poems: 1914-26 published |
1928 |
Co-founds Seizin Press with Laura Riding |
1929 |
Goodbye to All That published |
1931 |
Poems: 1926-1930 published |
1934 |
I, Claudius and Claudius the God |
1935 |
Co-founds Epilogue, a semiannual magazine, with Laura Riding |
1938 |
Collected Poems published |
1938 |
Count Belisarius published |
1941 |
The Long Weekend published |
1943 |
Wife to Mr Milton published |
1946 |
King Jesus published |
1949 |
Seven Days in New Crete published |
1953 |
The Nazarene Gospel Restored published |
1955 |
The Greek Myths published |
1961 |
Was made the Professor of Poetry at Oxford |
1964 |
The Hebrew Myths published |
1968 |
Receives the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry |
1975 |
Retires to the village of Deya in Mallorca |
1985 |
Dies 7 December in Deja |