![]() ![]() ![]() It championed the American style, in relation to the perceived excessive 'gentility' of British poetry of the time. His 1962 poetry anthology The New Poetry was hailed at the time as a fresh departure. His 1999 autobiography is entitled Where Did It All Go Right? He also wrote on divorce ( Life After Marriage), dreams ( Night), and the oil industry ( Offshore), as well as his hobbies of poker ( The Biggest Game In Town) and mountaineering ( Feeding the Rat, a profile of his frequent climbing partner Mo Anthoine). His renowned study of suicide, The Savage God, gained added resonance from his friendship with Plath. ![]() From 1956 to 1966, he was the poetry editor and critic for The Observer, where he introduced British readers to John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Zbigniew Herbert, and Miroslav Holub.Īlvarez was the author of many non-fiction books. After teaching briefly in Oxford and the United States, he became a full-time writer in his late twenties. He was subsequently elected as a Jane Eliza Procter Visiting Fellow at Princeton University. He was educated at The Hall School in Hampstead, London, and then Oundle School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he took a First in English. ![]() Alvarez and Al Alvarez.Īlfred Alvarez was born in London, to an Ashkenazic Jewish mother and a father from a Sephardic Jewish family. Alfred Alvarez (5 August 1929 – 23 September 2019) was an English poet, novelist, essayist and critic who published under the name A. ![]()
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