Charles Dealtry Locock
Charles Dealtry Locock (1862 – 1946) was a British literary scholar, editor and translator, who wrote on a wide array of subjects, including chess, billiards and croquet.[1]
Life and career
Charles Dealtry Locock was born September 27, 1862 in Brighton, England.[1] A graduate of Oxford University,[2] he published a number of works on Percy Bysshe Shelley.[3] He was a skilled chess player, winning the British Amateur Championship in 1887 [1] and writing extensively on the game.[3] From 1904 until 1915 he was the editor of the Croquet Association Gazette.[4] Locock translated several Swedish authors, including the poets Esaias Tegnér and Gustaf Fröding and the playwright August Strindberg.[3] His translation of the Strindberg play "The Dance of Death" was used in the 1969 film adaptation starring Laurence Olivier.[5] He died May 13, 1946 in London.[1]
C. D. Locock and his American contemporary, Charles Wharton Stork, published several volumes of Swedish poetry in translation.[6] Among the authors they covered were Gustaf Fröding, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Birger Sjöberg and August Strindberg.[7][8]
Selected works
- Side and Screw 1901
- Modern Croquet Tactics 1907
- Olympian Echoes 1908
- The Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley 1911
- 120 Chess Problems and Puzzles 1912 [7]
Selected translations
- Thirty-two passages from the Iliad 1922
- Thirty-two passages from the Odyssey 1923
- Fritiof's Saga by Esaias Tegnér 1924
- Guitar and Concertina by Gustaf Fröding 1925
- Modern Swedish Poetry Pt. 1 1929
- Easter and other plays by August Strindberg 1929
- Lucky Peter's Travels and other plays by August Strindberg 1930
- Master Olof and other plays by August Strindberg 1931
- Modern Swedish Poetry Pt. 2 1936 [7]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Charles Dealtry Locock chessgames.com. Retrieved: April 29, 2016.
- ↑ Oxford University Gazette, (October 25, 1881), p. 49
- 1 2 3 Who Was Who In Literature, 1906-1934, (Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1979) Volume 2, p. 686
- ↑ CA Gazette swfcroquet.org.uk. Retrieved: April 29, 2016.
- ↑ The Dance Of Death imdb.com. Retrieved: April 29, 2016.
- ↑ Songs and poems from Sweden archive.org. Retrieved: May 23, 2016.
- 1 2 3 Locock Bibliography archive.org. Retrieved: April 29, 2016.
- ↑ The National Cyclopedia Of American Biography, (James T. White & Company: Clifton, New Jersey, 1975), Volume 56, pp. 141-142.
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