F.T. Prince (1912 - 2003)

The Telegraph & The Guardian look back over the life of Frank Templeton Prince, whose first poetry collection was published with the support of T.S. Eliot (when he was an editor at Faber).

Prince was born in South Africa, educated at Oxford and Princeton, and died last Thursday, August 7 at his home in Southampton, England. His work was decidedly unfashionable, but admired by the likes of Geoffrey Hill and John Ashbery. His best known poem, “Soldiers Bathing,” was written during World War II and often anthologized -- it appears online with its Catalan translation in Saltana, a journal of literature & translation which publishes “poetry, fiction, theatre and essays from all historical periods and national traditions in bilingual or multilingual editions from any language into Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician and Portuguese, or vice versa.” He was also a respected scholar of Milton and Shakespeare and taught for many years at the Southampton University.