Pinto, Vivian de Sola
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| born on | 9 December 1895 at 23:15 (= 11:15 PM ) | ||||
| Place | Hampstead, England, 51n34, 0w11 | ||||
| Timezone | GMT h0e (is standard time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   17°41'   26°27 Asc. 13°49'
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Biography
British poet, literary critic and historian. He was a leading scholarly authority on D. H. Lawrence, and appeared for the defence (Penguin Books) in the 1960 Lady Chatterley's Lover trial.
Pinto became a close friend of Siegfried Sassoon, having fought in World War I alongside him, as his second-in-command, in France. He appears in the 'Sherston' books (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer etc.), Sassoon's fictionalised biography, under the pseudonym of "Velmore".
After the war he was at the University of Oxford. Later he was Professor in the Department of English at the University of Nottingham, from 1938 until 1961.
He is also known as the translator of France Prešeren's poetry into the English language.
Pinto died on 27 July 1969.
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Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes Vivian de Sola Pinto's book, "The City That Shone: An Autobiography (1895-1922)" (Hutchinson, 1969), p. 9: "my birth on 9th December 1895 was an occasion of great rejoicing. The winter of 1895 was a cold one and my father told me that when he went to fetch the doctor on the night of my birth it was snowing. I was born at 11.15 pm."
Categories
- Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Historian
- Vocation : Writers : Critic
- Vocation : Writers : Poet
- Vocation : Writers : Translator