Alfred Charles Tomlinson, CBE was an English poet, translator, academic, and illustrator.
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13 Facts About Charles Tomlinson
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Charles Tomlinson was born in Penkhull, and grew up in Basford, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
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Charles Tomlinson subsequently taught for thirty-six years in the English Department of Bristol University, where he became Emeritus Professor.
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Charles Tomlinson was a graphic artist, and In Black and White: The Graphics of Charles Tomlinson, with an introduction by Nobel prize-winner Octavio Paz, was published in 1975 and was the focus of a December 1975 edition of the BBC television series Arena.
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Charles Tomlinson's poetry won international recognition and received many prizes in Europe and the United States, including the 1993 Bennett Award from Hudson Review; the New Criterion Poetry Prize, 2002; the Premio Internazionale di Poesie Ennio Flaiano, 2001; and the Premio Internazionale di Poesia Attilio Bertolucci, 2004.
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Charles Tomlinson was an Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences and of the Modern Language Association.
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Charles Tomlinson was made a CBE in 2001 for his contribution to literature.
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Charles Tomlinson's Selected Poems, his collections Skywriting, Metamorphoses, and The Vineyard Above the Sea, among others, are published by Carcanet Press.
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Schmidt goes on to define the two characteristic voices of Charles Tomlinson: "one is intellectual, meditative, feeling its way through ideas" while the other engages with "landscapes and images from the natural world".
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From 1985 to 2000, Charles Tomlinson recorded all of his published poetry for Keele University as well as his translations of poetry by Antonio Machado and Fyodor Tyutchev.
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Charles Tomlinson was an authoritative translator of poetry from the Russian, Spanish and Italian, including work by Antonio Machado, Fyodor Tyutchev, Cesar Vallejo, and Attilio Bertolucci.
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Charles Tomlinson's poetry has been translated into Spanish by Jordi Doce and Octavio Paz, into Italian by Silvano Sabbadini, Edoardo Zuccato, and others, and into French by Michele Duclos.
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