British writer and historian
Vivian de Sola Pinto (9 December 1895 – 27 July 1969) was a British poet, literary critic and historian.[1] He was a leading scholarly authority onD. H. Lawrence, and appeared for the defence (Penguin Books) in the 1960Lady Chatterley's Lover trial.
Pinto was born and grew up inHampstead.[2] He became a close friend ofSiegfried Sassoon, having fought inWorld 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".[3]
After the war he was at theUniversity of Oxford. Later he was Professor in the Department of English at theUniversity of Nottingham, from 1938 until 1961.
He is also known as the translator ofFrance Prešeren's poetry into theEnglish language.
He was the great-grandson of RabbiDavid Aaron de Sola.
- Works of SirCharles Sedley, with a Study of Sedley (1928)
- The Tree of Life: An Anthology (1929), editor withGeorge Neill Wright
- Peter Sterry: Platonist and Puritan, 1613-1672 (1934)
- The Invisible Sun - poems
- Crisis in English Poetry: 1880-1940
- The Common Muse: An Anthology of Popular British Ballad Poetry 15th-20th Century, editor withAllan Edwin Rodway
- Restoration Carnival: Five courtier poets: Rochester, Dorset, Sedley, Etherege & Sheffield (1954)
- Reginald Mainwaring Hewitt: A Selection from his Literary Remains (1955)
- The Divine Vision: Studies in the Poetry and Art of William Blake (1957) editor
- Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence (1964), editor with F. Warren Roberts
- Bulgarian Prose and Verse (1957)
- Enthusiast in Wit: A Portrait of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 1647-1680 (1962)
- The Restoration Court Poets: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester; Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset; Sir Charles Sedley; Sir George Etheredge (1965)
- The English Renaissance 1510-1680
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