sherard vines

Walter Sherard Vines (1890 1964) was an English writer and academic, who wrote poetry, novels and criticism. He was born in Oxford and educated at Magdalen College School and New College, Oxford. He was published in Oxford Poetry, and took an academic position at Belfast University in 1914. He served in the British Army until 1917, when he was invalided out. Poems of his were included in the Sitwell Wheels anthologies. From 1923 for five years he taught at Keio University in Tokyo. During that period he was for a time tutor to Prince Chichibu. He contributed while there to Edmund Blunden's Oriental Literary Times. From 1929 he was professor at the University College of Hull.

Works

The Two Worlds (1916) poems
The Kaleidoscope (1921) poems
The Pyramid (1926) poems
A basic guide to English composition (1928) with G.B.Sansom
Triforium (1928) poems
Humours Unreconciled (1928) novel
Movements In Modern English Poetry And Prose (1927) criticism
The Course Of English Classicism From The Tudor To The Victorian Age (1930) criticism
Yofuku: or Japan in Trousers (1931) travel
Return, Belphegor! (1932) fantasy novel
Whips and Scorpions: Specimens of Modern Satiric Verse 1914-1931 (1932) anthology
Georgian Satirists (1934) criticism
Green to Amber (1941) novel
100 Years Of English Literature (1950) criticism
Antony and Cleopatra (The Warwick Shakespeare) editor with A. E. Morgan

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