C. H. Sisson

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Charles Hubert Sisson CH (April 22, 1914 – September 5, 2003) was a British writer, best known as a poet and translator. He was also a novelist and critic. He worked as a civil servant, and wrote a standard text The Spirit of British Administration (1959) arising from his work and a comparison with other European methods.

He was born and brought up in Bristol, and was a student at the University of Bristol where he read English and Philosophy. He reacted against the prevailing intellectual climate of the 1930s, particularly the Auden Group, preferring to go back to the anti-romantic T. E. Hulme, and to the Anglican tradition. He joined the Ministry of Labour in 1936. During World War II he served in the British Army in India.

He was appointed a Companion of Honour in 1993.

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  • An Asiatic Romance (1953)
  • Versions and Perversions of Heine (1955) translations
  • Poems (1959)
  • The Spirit of British Administration (1959)
  • The London Zoo (1961)
  • Art and Action (1965)
  • Christopher Homm (1965) novel
  • Numbers (1965)
  • The Poetry of Catullus (1966 MacGibbon and Kee, 1966) translator
  • The Discarnation, or How the Flesh became Word and Dwelt Among Us (1967)
  • Metamorphoses (1968) poems
  • Roman Poems (1968)
  • English Poetry 1900-1950: An Assessment (1971)
  • The Case of Walter Bagehot (1972)
  • In the Trojan Ditch: Collected Poems and Selected Translations (1974)
  • The Corridor (1975) poem
  • The Poetic Art: a Translation of Horace's Ars Poetica (1975)
  • David Hume (1976)
  • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura (1976) translator
  • Anchises (1976)
  • Jonathan Swift: Selected Poems (1977) editor
  • Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1978) editor
  • Moon-Rise and Other Poems (1979)
  • Exactions (1980)
  • Autobiographical and other papers of Philip Mairet (1981) editor
  • Modern Poets Five (Faber and Faber 1981) editor Jim Hunter, with Andrew Waterman, Craig Raine, Robert Wells, and Andrew Motion
  • The Divine Comedy (1981) blank verse translation
  • Anglican Essays (1983)
  • Night Thoughts and Other Poems (1983)
  • The Song of Roland (1984) translator
  • Collected Poems 1943–1983 (1984)
  • The Aeneid (1986) translator
  • Britannicus, Phaedra, Athaliah by Jean Racine (1987) translator
  • God Bless Karl Marx! (1987)
  • On the Lookout: A Partial Autobiography (1989)
  • Antidotes (1991)
  • Nine Sonnets (1991)
  • English Perspectives: Essays on Liberty and Government (1992)
  • Re-active Anthology: Ghosts in the Corridor No. 2 (1992) with Andrew Crozier and Donald Davie
  • Is There a Church of England? (1993)
  • The Pattern (1993)
  • What and Who (1994)
  • Edgar Allan Poe, Poems and Essays on Poetry (1995) editor
  • Selected Poems (1995)
  • Collected Poems (1998)

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