Laurence Lerner
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Laurence (David) Lerner (born 12 December 1925) is a South African born British literary critic and poet and novelist.
He was born in Cape Town to parents of Lithuanian-Jewish ancestry, and educated at the University of Cape Town and Pembroke College, Cambridge.
He was lecturer in English, University College of the Gold Coast, 1949-53, tutor then lecturer in English, Queen's University, Belfast, 1953-62, lecturer then reader then professor of English, University of Sussex 1962-84 and professor of English, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1985-95.
He was at one point associated with the group of poets known as The Movement.
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