Press, John (Bryant)
PRESS, John (Bryant)
PRESS, John (Bryant). British, b. 1920. Genres: Poetry, Literary criticism and history. Career: Served with the British Council in Greece, 1946-50, India and Ceylon, 1950-52, Birmingham, 1952-54, Cambridge, 1955-62, London, 1962-65, Paris, 1966-71, and Oxford, 1971-78; Literary Advisor, London, 1978-80. Council member, Royal Society of Literature, 1961-88. Publications: The Fire and the Fountain, 1955; Uncertainties, 1956; (ed.) Poetic Heritage, 1957; The Chequer'd Shade, 1958; Andrew Marvell, 1958; Guy Fawkes Night, 1959; Herrick, 1961; Rule and Energy, 1963; Louis MacNeice, 1964; (ed.) Palgrave's Golden Treasury, Book V, 1964; A Map of Modern English Verse, 1969; The Lengthening Shadows, 1971; John Betjeman, 1974; Spring at St. Clair, 1974; Aspects of Paris, 1975; (with Edward Lowbury and Michael Riviere) Troika, 1977; Poets of World War I, 1983; Poets of World War II, 1984; A Girl with Beehive Hair, 1986; (ed.) Palgrave's Golden Treasury, Book VI, 1994. Address: 5 S. Parade, Frome, Somerset BA11 1EJ, England.