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1907 - Born on the 12th of September in Belfast, Ireland.
1921 - He was an enthusiastic sportsman, something which continued when he moved to Marlborough College, having won a classical scholarship.
1925 - In November, he was awarded a "Postmastership" scholarship to Merton College, Oxford, and he left Marlborough in the summer of the following year.
1928 - He was introduced to the classics don John Beazley and his stepdaughter Mary Ezra.
1930 - Married Giovanna Marie Thérèse Babette.
1933 - Started to write poetry again, and in January, he and Auden led the first edition of Geoffrey Grigson's magazine New Verse.
1936 - His translation of Aeschylus's Agamemnon was published, and produced by the Group Theatre (London).
1939 - A lectureship at Cornell University was organised, and in December, he sailed for America, leaving his son in Ireland.
1941 - He was employed by the BBC.
1947 - The BBC sent him to report on Indian independence and partition, and he continued to produce plays for the corporation, including a six-part radio adaptation of Goethe's Faust.
1953 - Wrote Autumn Sequel, a long autobiographical poem in terza rima, which critics compared unfavourably with Autumn Journal.
1957 - Another poorly received collection of poems, Visitations, was published.
1958 - He was awarded the CBE in the 58' New Year's Honours list.
1963 - He went caving in Yorkshire to gather sound effects for his final radio play, Persons from Porlock.
- He was admitted to hospital on the 27th of August, dying there on the 3rd of September.
1921 - He was an enthusiastic sportsman, something which continued when he moved to Marlborough College, having won a classical scholarship.
1925 - In November, he was awarded a "Postmastership" scholarship to Merton College, Oxford, and he left Marlborough in the summer of the following year.
1928 - He was introduced to the classics don John Beazley and his stepdaughter Mary Ezra.
1930 - Married Giovanna Marie Thérèse Babette.
1933 - Started to write poetry again, and in January, he and Auden led the first edition of Geoffrey Grigson's magazine New Verse.
1936 - His translation of Aeschylus's Agamemnon was published, and produced by the Group Theatre (London).
1939 - A lectureship at Cornell University was organised, and in December, he sailed for America, leaving his son in Ireland.
1941 - He was employed by the BBC.
1947 - The BBC sent him to report on Indian independence and partition, and he continued to produce plays for the corporation, including a six-part radio adaptation of Goethe's Faust.
1953 - Wrote Autumn Sequel, a long autobiographical poem in terza rima, which critics compared unfavourably with Autumn Journal.
1957 - Another poorly received collection of poems, Visitations, was published.
1958 - He was awarded the CBE in the 58' New Year's Honours list.
1963 - He went caving in Yorkshire to gather sound effects for his final radio play, Persons from Porlock.
- He was admitted to hospital on the 27th of August, dying there on the 3rd of September.
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